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SECOND NOTICE FOR FEBRUARY. The Sunday at Home has a goodly contents lj»; «!jd a highly pleasing frontispiece. Our Young Folks Budget is replete with 8epsational and comic stories, amply illns- mtd. The Young Ladies' Journal is, as usual, full of iutelligeuce appertaining to the world ef fashion, and the rage for light literatare is fully Ijud amply met Ly a series of well-told stories. The leading story in the Quiver exhibits a variety of character which we do not nnd in v%ery tale, and in this respect it is above the uterage of Quiver fiction. The other contents of the present number fully sustain the reputa- t: n of this magazine. Golden Hours will continae to commend itself t its readers in a marked degree. Among the c ief items in the namber is a most interesting v e on the early life of the Prince Consort, ggested by Mr Theodore Martin's book. The Treasury of Literature has a singular rticle-" A Mesmeric-Telegraphic Discovery," ni a more practical one on the art of procuring e -P. These are two items oat of an elaborate intents list. Musicians and lovers of music will find an nt resting subject to them in the Leisure Hour, n Jlr Rimbault's "B.v-paths of Masical His- ory." The present- pait deals with madrigal l0m?osers. Cardboard Modelling" will, if (arr ed out, be found to form a pleasant recrea- out winter eveniiage. Th" Saturday Journal will be as popular as be D-iy of Rest, and the exertions of Mr Strahan n pro>idicg the working classes with good read- able lierature at a cheap rate should be met by 1be co operation of all interested in the circula- ion uf soch serials, which do much to counteract ;}¡e eiiis of the widely-diffused pernicious pub- jcatioJS of the day. Scribncr's Monthly is as good a number of th6 fimou- serial as we have yet seen, but this is not much praise, when every number is excellent. As we have said before, there is a freshness about this magazine which the majority of its fHish compeers do not possess. Where else can we iind such pictures as those illustrating the p ers on the Colorado, or such a bright sunny e !y as Sevenoaks, or such well-written C omenta as those of Scribner's able editor ?

RAILWAY REFORM. Mr G. W. Jouts, 1, Fiuch-lane, Cornhill, has a second pamphlet on "The Million OB u Kail, and Kailroad Dividends." The pam- phlet is written to advocate a new system, by whicii tickers would be issued for a series of miles. Mr Jones argues that third-class traffic mast be the mo>t remunerative. There are a m ilion third-class travellers to every thousand fi -st-class; and, whatever impediments may be placed in their way, the million will travel." Mr Jjnes ivould aboiish fiist-class season tickets "and jjstead thereof, books of twenty-five, fifty, and 1 HI lirst-ciass return tickets should be issued at 11 ilj the ordinary fares, in compensation for pre- p uicti, iVc., to frank the bere frsm one given e itioD to another available if given up, at any jiteraediate station. These tickets could be given by him to his wife or friends, whereby taey Aouid be saved the delay and unpleasant- ly "i obtaining their ticket at the pay counter The third-ciass passenger should be carried four (IT ric" milrx for his penny, instead of a firet- class seasuu ticket holder. He would not com- plain even if occasionally he had only standing rooa in ;u carriage that seats forty passengers AND HODJJ travel five times oftener than at pre- si- L ai d cause ten times as many more to travel also; and not even a temporary loss would be sasttined thereby. With these reforms in opera- tion, ttie first-class receipts would DO longer re- main stationary, as at present, but woaid vie with tu. ibird-ciass receipts in increasing the com- paflif'i'i' dividends, and the question would be solved where the profit from the first-class pas- senger traffic hitherto has gone which ought to have found its way into the shareholders' po:kets." In another extract, Mr Jones, after showing that lighter engines would do the wark he is advochtiijg, says if there were local trains running from market town to market town (a stHn.-J at the rate of twenty miles an hoar, carry- ioy the third-class passenger any distance be- tween those two towns for a penny, and the first class passenger for threepence, the company, without disturbing the existing traffic, would realise more than double the amount of profit that all the first-class truffic of the company has produced on an average of the last eight years would add greatly to the education, sobriety, and happiness of the district, and materially increase the wedth of the neighbourhood." This will give our readers a notion of the system which Mr Jones is advocating, and which is not amongst the most improbable of the Railway Reforms of the future.

THE TALKATIVE COACH DRIVER AND SIR WATKIN. In an article on 44 Talkative People," in the C imhiU, we notice the following :—"It had been one of the hottest days in summer, and I had passed it in a hot room of a hot hotel, in a hot town in North Wales. As the sun was going do-vu I thought I would refresh my exhaosted na ure by having a quiet country drive. The eveuing air was delicious, the coantry was green aud fresh, if not tremendously picturesque, and I snould have eujoyed myseif txtremely, but for t se loquacity of tue driver, who considered it his du y to keep up, on my behalf, a running fire of information, the greater part of which I already possessed. It is always a great mistortane, in going to a strange place, to enter regions go. vrned by a great landlord, with enormous wealth end influence, who, in the eyes of the people, is lit le less than a God. It is Sir Watkin here, Sir Watkin there, Sir Watkin everywhere. You go to the Watkin Arms, and in the best sitting rom, in which you are bestowed, there is a prin' of Sir Watkin (from the famous picture by -), in a dress snit. as be received the deputation from Then there is Sir Watkin in top-boots, biititing-cap and whip, with his favourite horse Battler. Then the county paper is fall of Sir Watkin—of the eloquent speech he made on pre- siding at some distribution of prizes to agricul- tural labourers or schoolboys of the middle class. BII. in thee cases you can get away from Sir Whin; bi t my conversational driver barely al- ;(¡Wd me any rtluxation. This is Sir Watkin's irojierty—looking above the wood jou can catch Uitnpse of ttie chimneys of tl e mansion, and to n. At last I said, with some severity, "O i I now all <>b >ut it, and more than you can tell IlJe," and for a few minutes he was silent. Bat presently he broke out again, by asking, as I bought, (for I had fallen into a reverie), 44 Did )o ver bee a bear upon two poles ?" I was 1 Miged to ponder over this feat of crsine activity. A6 a Fellow of the Zoological Society, I was lJollnd to kuow something about it. Bat although I could remember very often seeing a bear up C'ne pult-, I could not tax my memory with ever Laving seen a bear np two poles at the same time. It turned out, however, that it was not a bear up two poles, bat a mare with two foals, both of which were taking their evening meal at the same maternal fouut of lacteal nourishment. Not be- iLg very wt-ii acquainted generally with the puer- peral powers of the equine species, Iconfeps that 1 was ncrt as much astonished or as grateful to the icqii.tciuns dnver as I ought to have been on account of this physiological revelation, the more toplecialiv us, after this triumphant display of a grlit fileti curiosity, he ventilated his conver- sational powers more freely than before. Think- ing that the object of these attentions might be a pint of beer, I stopped him at the nearest respect- ive hostelry 1 saw, and regaled him with the d-sired refreshment: bat I am sorry to say that "heiher from tbe effects of gratitude or the l-qaur, the experiment proved to be a complete failure, flud he talked more than ever. At last I ceased to listen, and contrived to get heme in safety, having had the quiet evening drive I had promised myself spoilt by the loquacity of my

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F oreign I ntelligence. GERMANY. _EM;A:NY. Prince Bísmarck's health is restored, and we I shall hear nothing more of his withdrawal into private life on the completion of his sixtieth year. That event happens on the 1st of April next, which, as the caprieious Fates would have it, is of all days of the year the Prince's natal anniversary. Coun Moltke eocceeds the Chancellor as an invalid but, taking for granted that the plan of the next war is finished, the Count can be better spared from the Imperial councils than the Prince. A diplomatic document which has just been published reads strangely in the light of recent Continental events. M, Hansen, a Dane, who in 1864 and following years had had freqaent inter- views with Prince Bismarck-then a plain and undistinguishpd baron-in reference to the re- stitution of Danish Schleswie, was, subsequent to the Austro-Prussiaa war, entrusted by M. Drouyn de Lhnys with a mission to the Berlin minister. The French Emperor, M. Hansen was informed, 1. ad declined to ask Prussia for terri- toritli compensation but M. Drouyn hit upon a middle course, which, he thought, would meet the necessities of the case. He accordingly handed to the messenger a document to be delivered to Bis- marck, proposing non-officially, and indeed anony- mously, that, in order to preserve the wonted equilibrium and to prevent France and Prussia from coming into collision, the German territory on the left bank of the Rhine should be con- stituted an independent and neutral State, over which a Prince of the House of Hohenzollern might be called upon to reign. SPAIN. I There is but little news from Spain this week. Cabrera has arrived at Estella, and has been appointed commander-in-chief of the Carlist army. It is stated that the father of Don Carlos was in London last week, and succeeded in raising a con- siderable sum of money to carry on the war.— Marshal Concha, brother of the other marshal of that name who was killed in attempting to earry the Carlist positions before Estella last summer, has been rt-called from Cuba. It is expected that he will take the command of the army of the north. He is on his way home, and will be sue ceeded in the governorship of Cuba by General Balmaseda. RUSSIA. I The Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs de- clined the other day to give a categorical reply to the question of a senator as to whether tke Govern- ment intend to send a representative to the St. Petersburg Conference on the Usages of War. It is alleged that the refusal of England to-take part in the Congress is keenly felt in high quarters in the Russian capital, as it was supposed that the matrimonial alliance which has drawn the two Courts into closer relations would have ensured a favourable response to the invitation to join in the discussion of a project which is known to have originated with the Czar himself. At present, Germany and Austria are the only two Powers who have expressed their willingness to be repre. seated at the Conference. AUSTRALIA. I it is announced by a telegram from Adelaide that the elections in South Australia have resulted in a majority for the Government. All the mini- sters have been re-elected. The Premier (Mr Blyth) had intimated that education and the fede- ration oi the Colonies would be the two principal subjects of the ministerial programme. It is stated in a mail despatch from Adelaide thst in the rural districts there is a continual outcry for labour, and that it is evident the new Parliament will have to adopt a more vigorous policy on that point. A sad tale has been conveyed to Hobart Town by the second officer of the brig James Birney, of Sydney. The vessel was captured by the natives at Howe's Group, in the South Pacific, and the whole of the crew are supposed to have been mur- dered, with the exception of the bearer of the news to Hobart Town.

THE AMERICAN House of Representatives has declined to disenss the Revenue Bill. THE NEW GOVERNMENT established by a revo- lution at Monte Video has been recognised by the neighbouring republic of Argentine, and by the diplomatic body in the Uruguayan capital. THE FORMAL ENTHRONEMENT of the new Em- peror of China is fixed for the 25th iust. This an- nouncement comes direct from Pekin. No re- J ference is made in the telegram to any distur. bance. THE BECALL of Sir Benjamin Pine from the governorship of Natal is officially confirmed. Be- fore a new governor assumes office, Sir Garnet Wolseley will go out to administer the affairs of the Government pro tem., with the special objects of devising a system of defence for the colony, and of promoting a better understanding with the natives. A SERIOUS emeute is reported to have taken place in the criminal gaol at Singapore. The Chinese prisoners made a preconcerted attack on the authorities of the establishment, and wounded Superintendent Dent and sixteen warders. This happened on Saturday last, and on the following day Mr Dent died from the injuries which he re- ceived. The outbreak was successfully quelled, but not before 50 of the prisoners were either killed or wounded.

DR. KENEALY IN PARLIAMENT. I To the surprise of everybody, Dr. Kenealy was I returned tor Stoke on Tuesday, the result being I as follows:- Kenealy (Independent) 6,110 Walton (Labour Candidate) 4,168 1 Davenport (Conservative). 3,901 Unfortunately, Dr. Kenealy has done nothing to keep him out of the house. He is disbencbed and disbarred, but that does not incapacitate him tu sit in Parliament. He will, however, have to be a good deal more careful about what he writes in the Englishman, if he would not get into trouble. If, now that he is in the house, lie goes oa publishing such scandalous attacks upon the jadges as he has given us heretofore, he will find some one proposing that notice be taken of his articles, and perchance he will be brought up to the bar of the house and admonished. It would be interesting to know who found the money for Dr. Kenealy's election expenses. He is a poor man, and could not have paid for it himself. Possibly the ultra-Orange party helped him; and their organ, the Hour, welcomes him into the hcuse, and trusts that he will do the country good service there. A London correspondent, writing on Wednes- day night, says:—Dr. Kenealy, M.P., was in the lobby ot the House of Commons to-night, but he did not take his seat. He will be introduced to- morrow by the member for Peterborough. Mr Whalley has been unable to indace any other member of the House to accompany himself and. the doctor up the floor. Another correspondent says :—The story of this Stoke election has not been properly told in the London papers, and Dr. Kenealy's election has taken every one by surprise, from all I hear. There is a useful lesson to be learnt from this elec- tion-how to get deep down into the heart of a thoroughly democratic, well-meaning, but hot par- ticularly well-informed constituency. Dr. Kenealy is red-hot with indignation, and he has imparted a portion of his warmth to comparatively dull and inanimate natures. He has harangued them with a soul of fire, and has kindled a spark of en- thusiasm and sympathy which is always latent in a popular constituency. Dr. Kenealy will find the House of Commons much less easily moved. There is a prodigious vis inertia in that House, and it must not be concealed that Dr. Kenealy enters the House with a strong prejudice against him. An assembly, however, with a deeper sense of fairness and justice does not exist, and he will be weighed in the balance, not for words written in the past, but for words deliberately spoken in the future within the walls of St. Stephen's.

FOR information respecting every train, coach, and steamer in North Wales and the adjacent counties seethe "Wrexham Advertiser Railway, Coach, ani Steam Packet Guide," with a new and accurate rail- way map. Published monthly, one penny. Sold at all booksellers and railway stations. THE SAVING GF LIFE AT SEA.—Mr Arthur Woods, of Liverpool, has receutly patented a life-saving apparatus, which, from its extreme simplicity, seems likely to secure general adop- tion, especially on board passenger-carrying vessels. The invention consists of a double pil- low, which in ordinary times makes a comfort- able sleeping pillow, and may be used in every berth, thus removing the disadvantage of many other life-buoys, that they take np too much room and are always in the way. In time of dan- ger the pillow may, within thirty seconds, be slang over the shoulders and fastened to the per- son, one portion covering the ehest and the othpr the back, thus protecting the most vulnerable parts of the body from bits of floating wreck, &e. It is made of the most buoyant material, aDd will keep a person afloat for any length ef time. The danger of capsizing, common to many life- saving inventions, is here avoided, as the pillows are so arranged as to keep the head always above water. Moreover, the strength is not prema- turely exhausted by requiring to hold on, and the arms are left perfectly free for action, so that a person fitted with one of the pillow life- preserve4 are at liberty to swim, haul a rope, or poll an oar, in case of necessity. A farther ad- vantage is that the pillow life-preserver can be made very cheaply. Messrs Allan Brothers have adopted the invention in the cabin berths in all their steamers. It is contemplated shortly to hold a pnblic exhibition of Mr Woods' patent at George's Bathe, when the indention will be fatly tested.

Home News. It is announced that the Ven. Archdeacon Bickersteth, who is well known as the prolocator of the Lower Hoose of Convocation, has been appointed Dean of Licbfield. A LETTER from Mr W. H. Smith to Mr Rit- chie, M.P., announces that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to sanction the free opening of the Tower of London on two days in each week. IT HAS been definitely settled that the installa- tion of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as Grand Master of the Freemasons shall take place on April 28, in the Albert Hall, London, when upwards of 7000 masons are expected to be present. Mn GEORGE SMITH has discovered among the Assyrian tablets in the British Museum the legend of the building of the Tower of Babel. This dis- covery is quite as important as that of the tablet relating to the deluge made known last year by the same gentlecaan.-Athencum. The revenue returns from April 1 to February 13 are as follow :—Receipts, £ 63,467,426 ex-, penditure, 965,031,197; balances, £ 3,770,689. For the corresponding period of last year, the receipts were £ 64,007,211; the expenditure, £ 66,914,322 and the balanees, £ 4,363,607. THE Daily News is able to state on the highest authority that there is no foundation whatsoever for the recent report, and upon which action has been precipitately taken in Greenwich, that Mr Gladstone iatends to resign his seat for the borocgh. Mr Gladstone was in the House of Commons on Monday. THE GOOD TEMPLARS must look to themselves, for they are-at least in the Roman Catholic diocese of Salford-under the ban of the Church. Dr. Vaughan, the Bishop, forbids his flock, on pain of denial of the sacraments, to join any as- sociation of Good Templars, assigning as a reason for the prohibition that Good Templarism, is a religions organisation and a secret society. i The Prince Imperial has completed his military studies at Woolwich. His friends will be pleased to hear that he ranks first in fencing and riding, and seventh in proficiency among the cadets ex- amined for commissions. Shoald the voung man ever attain the throne of the French Empire and distinguish himself in the battle- field-the war of the revanche having some day to be engaged in-Woolwich, like Pitt's old pre- ceptor, will, of course, remember that it "taught the boy." THE DEATH IS ANNOUNCED of Signor Agnesi, who, as is well-known, was one of the leading members of her Majesty's Opera. He died the other day at his residence in London of dropsy, having been ill for about ten weeks. Signor Ag- nesi was a Belgian by birth. He was a thorough musician, being an excellent organist and pianist, and an accomplished vocalist, whose de- livery of florid MUbiC. such as that of Rossini, was unrivalled. THE NIGHT Scotch mail train leaving Glasgow at 9.10 ran into two ooal tracks a few miles from Wigan early on Tuesday morning. In conse- quence of a dense fog prevailing, the train was proceeding slowly at the time of the accident, which occurred within a few hundred yards of a signal-box. Happily none of the passengers sustained any injury, except a severe shaking; but the engine was damaged to such an extent that another had to be telegraphed for from Wigan, and the carriages shunted on to a siding until its arrival. The train arrived safely in Liverpool, three-quarters of an hour behind time. THE POPE'S encyclical letter was read on Sun- day in all the Roman Catholic churches in Eng- land. Archbishop Manning himself read the let- ter in the pro-Cathedral, Kensington. A general jubilee, which is only granted once in every twenty-five years, was also proclaimed. By this jubilee, what is called a plenary indulgence can be gained by all Roman Catholics who fulfil the necessary conditions. Cardinal Cullen in his Linton pastoral, exhorts his co-religionists not to be led away by the infidelity and materialism which itinerant preachers have lately been at- tempting to promulgate among them. Alluding to Mr Gladstone, his Eminence, after acknowledg- ing the obligations due to him for the benefits conferred by his policy upon Ireland, regrets that so distinguished a statesman should have injured his own good name, and alienated many of his most trusted friends, by imitating the policy of despotic statesmen in attacking the Church and the Sovereign Pontiff. THREE PRISONERS, convicted of robbery with violence, were flogged at Kirkdale Gaol, Liver- pool. Two of the men, Frederick M'Donald and John Hunt, were sentenced to receive twenty-five lashes; and the third, James Wilson, had his sentence supplemented by twenty lashes. About fifty men who are undergoing various terms of imprisonment for assaults upon women, kicking, and similar offences, were drawn up to witness the flagellation of their comrades. Before the operation commenced, the Chairman of the Visiting Justices, addressed the group of ruffians, telling them in effect that their punishment was quite inadequate to their crimes, and that, should they again be convicted of brutal offences, an im- pending alteration in the law would make it im- possible for them to escape the severe retribution which they were about to witness in the case of their three fellow-criminals. M'Donald, Hunt, and Wilson were then prepared for punishment, which was inflicted by three warders selected for the duty, and which was endured with fewer manifestations of suffering than are usual in such cases. Wilson, having got through his allotted number of cuts, remarked, with at least as much bravado as sincerity, If you think it has done me any good, you're very much mistaken." AN ARRANGEMENT has been entered into with the London and North-Western Railway by the proprietors of the Times for the earlier convey- ance of that newspaper into the Birmingham district. A special train leaves Easton station for Birmingham at five, arriving at eight o'clock in the morning. The special is intended only for the conveyance of newspapers, to the exclu- sion of all passenger or other traffic. The Lon- don correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury, writing on Tuesday, says:—" The Times ran its first special train to Birmingham to-day. It started at five o'clock, and was to do the jonrney of 113 miles in hours. Messrs W. H. Smith and Co., the great news agents, who take some 40,000 copies of the Times every morning, had charge of the parcels, and sent men to fold them en route. The train consisted of three carriages and a break, and costs JE50 a day. No fewer than nine goods trains have to be shunted to make way for it. Arrived at Birmingham, the parcels catch trains for the Midlands and the north some two hours earlier than the other London papers do, and so have precedence of them in all that part of England. No doubt, the managers of the Times understand their own business. but it is difficalt,to see how an oatlay of some 300 guineas a week is to be repaid. The arrangement is not likely to interfere with the sale of the local papers." THE ARMY ESTIMATES for the year 1875-76 have been issued. There is a net increase over last year of 2192,400. The total amount of the estimate for 1875-76 is £14,677,700, from which is to be dedacted £ 1,189,500 for estimated Ex- chequer extra receipts, making the net charge for army services (1875-76) E13,488,200. The total number of men upon the British establishment is 128,994, which is a net increase of 287 over last year. The totals under the head of the Estima- ted Expenditure are-regular forces, £4,869,500 auxiliary and reserve forces, 21,323,100; con missariat and erdinance store establishments, £ 5,062,800; works and buildings, f799,700 various services, 9394 900. Total effective ser- vices, 212,450,000. The total for non-effective services is £2.227,700. The largest item of in- crease is 2108,500, under the head of general staff and regimental pay allowances and charges. Of this sum £83,165 is for regimental pay, £ 12,217 for « _18 AAA • 1 regimental extra pay, and to,ouu ior tne pur- chase of horsef. The next largest item of in- crease in the effective forces is £ 38,400 under the head of works and buildings. 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Imperial Parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Lord Chancellor. in introducing his bill te amend the patent laws, said that if these laws I were not amended the days of patents would be numbered. The bill was read a first time and the house adjoarned. u HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. I Mr tlathbone gave notice of his intention to I refer to the inconveniencs arising from various acts of Parliament dealing with one and the same I subject, and to soggest the expediency of a digest and consolidation of these acts being prepared. Mr Lopes, member for Frome, confessed on the accusation of Mr Sullivan, that in an after-dinner speech he described thehome-rnlers as disreput- able." He justified this by saying that an attempt to disturb the integrity of the empire was not creditable," and that 11 not creditable" was John- son's disreputable." Mr Slivan did not ap- parently see t he force of this logic, and said some- thing about again referring to the subject. The Chancellor of the Exchequer consented to post- pone the second reading of the Friendly Societies Bill and the going into committee upon it. The only other matter before the house was the issue of the writ for Stroud. Mr Adam moved the issue of the writ. Mr Lewis moved as an amend- ment that the writ be not issued until three clear days after the evidence and report of the judge at the last election inquiry had been placed in the hands of the members. This course was opposed as without precedent, where no ulterior action was intended; and after some discussion the motion for the issue of the writ was, on a division, adopted by a majority of 184 against 73. The house then adjourned. [ HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Lord Stratheden asked a question with refer- ence to the difficulty as to the right of Roumania and Servia to enter into commercial treaties with- out the consent of the Ottoman Government. The Earl of Derby said negotiations were still going an, and at present no documents could be prodoced on the pubject. He did not look upon the question as one from which there was any reason to anticipata a disturbance of Europe or in the East. Their lordships adjourned after a brief sitting of twenty minutes. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. I Mr Whalley presented a petition from the sisters of Arthur Orton, praying for redress on account of the obloquy and loss of character they have suffered through a supposed brother of theirs" having been committed to prison. This modest document was, at the request of the member for Peterborough, read in a formal manner by the Clerk at the table. With respect to the blind boy who was sent to gaol at Drogheda for reading an embossed Bible in the streets, Sir M. H. Beech explained, in reply to Mr Johnston, that the boy and his father had been repeatedly cautioned by the police, but refused to move on." Mr Sollivan returned to his grievance against Mr Lopes for that gentleman's characteri- sation of the Home Rule members as a disreput- able band, and on this second occasion called attention to the matter as a breach of privilege. He also complained of the language of the hon. member for North Lincolnshire, Sir John Astley who in a recess speech, referred to the representa- tives from the Sister Isle as a lot of Irish chaps," adding that there were sixty of these fellows, and he believed about forty of them were the most confounded rascals." It came oat in the course of which Mr Sullivan's speech that the Lincoln- shire baronet unreservedly withdrew the offensive words used by him on receiving a visit from an Irish military gentleman to inquire into the state of his health, and particularly the condition of his trigger fioger." After the disposal of some technical points, Mr Disraeli suggested that Mr Lopes should express his regret for having used the language complained of, and this the member for Frome did, with certain qualifictions, which somewhat marred the effect of his apology. On the motion for the second reading of the Artisans' Dwelling Bill, Mr Stansfield, Sir S. Waterlow, and other hon. members expressed their approval of the general scope of the measure, at the same time freely criticising some of its provisions. Mr Rathbone in giving a general approval of the bill, suggested that it was capable of improvement in committee. After farther discussion the bill was read a second time. A motion by Mr Whalley for a return of petitions and a copy of correspond- ence relative thereto in connection with the Tichborne case fell to the ground for the want of a seconder. The House adjourned. I HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. During toe quarter 01 an noar that tne Ltords sat, the Earl of Beauchamp, replying to a question by the Earl of Shaftesbary-with reference to the death of a boy near Cambridge, from having been sent up a chimney, said that as the coroner's jury had returned a verdict of manslaughter he did not apprehend any failure of justice, and he thought the law, as it stood, was quite strong enough to put a stop to the climbing-boy system. I HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY. Daring question time, Mr Ward Hunt declined to accede to the proposal of Mr E. Reed to post- pone the Arctic expedition for a season, with the object of uniting with foreign Governments in other expeditions for scientific observations. The Home Secretary informed Mr Macdonald that the subject of the extension of the operation of the Factory Act of last year was under con- sideration. Sir John Astley felt it incumbent on him to correct an impression made by the hon. member for Loath, that he had been frightened with the withdrawal of the expressions he had used respecting the Home Rule members. Mr. Newdegate's bill for appointing commissioners to inquire respecting monastic and conventual in- stitutions in Great Britain was read a first time. On the motion of Mr Salt, the Public Worship Facilities bill-which is designed to meet the want of Church accomodation in many towns and villages—passed its second reading. The Par- liamentary Returning Officers Bill and the Com- mon Law Procedure Act (1852) Amendment Bill also passed -a similar stage. Mr Hart Dyke moved an address for copies of official documents relating to the trial, conviction, sentence, and escape of John Mitchell. Captain Nolan complained that such a notion should be introduced in the absence of most of the Irish members, who had left in the belief that the business of the night was over. Mr Disraeli then gave notice of motion for Thurs- day declaring John Mitchel incapable of being elected, and ordering the issue of a new writ for Tipperary. Mr Sallivan and Sir George Bowyer having protested against the precipitate haste" with which the government was acting, the motion I of Mr Dyke was carried by 174 votes to 13, and the bouse adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. I The Hoase disposed of two important mea- sures. The first was Mr Barclay's bill for sub- stituting a wild animals act" for the Game Laws in Scotland. By this bill, foot game would be abandoned, and birds only retained as game but any person trespassing in persait of wild animals" would be subject to penalties rising from 10s. for a first offence to £ 5 with 30 days impri- sonment in default. The debate was principally amongst Scotch members; and the bill was gen- erally regarded as defective in its provisions. On a division it was rejected by 178 against 66. Sir T. Chambers then moved the second reading of his marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, which he explained was similar to those already introduced. A short debate followed and on a division the bill was thrown out by 171 votes against 142 majority, 29. I HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. I Lord Stratheden gave notice that on Monday next he will again raise the subject of the pro- jected commercial treaties with Roamania and Servia, independent of Turkey. Their lordships bad no business to transact, and the sitting there- fore lasted only a few minutes. HOUSE OF COMMONS,—THURSDAY. I Great interest was felt in to-day's proceed- ings in the House of Commons, as evinced by the early and large attendance of members. Some difficulty arose with regard to the introd action of Dr. Kenealy, the new member for Stoke-on-Trent, owing to bis inability to obtain the company of two honourable members, in accordance with the forms of the house, bat the awkward plight was finally overcome by Mr Bright volunteering to make a second, Mr Whalley being, of course, the other friend in need. Shortly afterwards Mr Disraeli moved the resolution of which he had given notice, declaring that John Mitchel, as a convicted ifelou, was incapacitated from being returned as a member of that honse. Mr O'Shaaghnessy thereupon moved the ad- journment of the debate on the ground that the parties most interested might have time to consider the course best to pnrsae. The At- torney-General, and subsequently the Solicitor- General, explained the law on the subject. Sir W. V. Harcourt, Mr Lowe, the Marquis of Hart- ington, and Mr W. E. Forster, all urged the necessity of delay, so that the matter I might be referred to a select committee. Mr Disraeli replied, contending that the House ought to decide such a case with the utmost promptitude. The house divided, and the motion for adjournment was defeated by 269 votes to 102. Another amendment by the Mar- quis of Hartiogton, to refer the case to a select committee, having been also negatived, the original motion was carried, and a new writ was ordered for the county of Tipperary. The house adjourned at half-past eight.

^—» Correspondence. I MOLD COTTAGE HOSPITAL. SIR,—I was very much pleased at the sugges- tion of Rambler" that the surplus money of the late Eisteddvod should be devoted to the estab- lishment of a Cottage Hospital in Mold. Having long felt the need of such an institu- tion, and being in a position in which I am able to judge of the benefits which would be derived from its establishment, I heartily agree with Rambler." I would earnestly urge the com- mittee to give the matter their prompt and serious consideration. I may add that I shall be most happy to do anything I can to further the object, and have great pleasure in stating that a gentleman fully alive to the wants of the neighbourhood has promised to give one hundred pounds if the pro- ject is properly set on foot. In addition to this handsome donation, I have about twenty pounds subscribed by friends at a distance.—Yours truly, Mold. ALFRED TRUBSHAW. I MR. BARNES ON AMERICA. Sin,-In your impression of Saturday last, I see a report of Mr Barnes's lecture on Impres- sions of America." Although Mr B. and I do not row in the same boat," I am always pleased in reading his speeches, for they generally bear upon important facts, and are strongly practical. Upon one point, and an important one, touched npon by the lecturer, we do not agree. I refer to Mr B.'s asseition that there are no church en- dowments in America. I do not know if he visited Trinity Episcopal Church, Broadway, New York. In July, 1866, I attended that church one Sunday morning. The thermometer at 11 o'clock stood at 95 degrees in the shade. The church was well filled with a highly respectable, attentive congregation. All had fans (as it was rather warm), one of which a lady kindly handed me. The fans seemed to be church property. I guessed from the acting" of the clergyman that he was of Ritualistic tendencies but for all that he gave us an excellent sermon, which indeed most of the clergy did that I heard. To come to our point of difference. Upon inquiry I found that that charch was really endowed and in- creasing yearly as leases fell out. Its endow- ment there was equal to £100,000 per annum, with its clergy handsomely paid, and I have not heard of its disendowment. With many apologies for contradicting Mr Barnes, and wishing him a long life of usefulness.—I remain, yours very truly, "Y GWIR YN ERBYN Y BYD." A BISHOP FOR WREXHAM. SIR,—1 am told there are objections to the proposal to remove the Cathedral staff from St. Asaph to Wrexham, on the ground that the pre- sence of a cathedral body in a town kills trade, and I am pointed to Worcester, Hereford, and other cathedral towns as examples of this. But, sir, I can also point to Manchester. Has Man- chester, since it was converted into a see, become a dull place, and is its trade in a state of stagna- tion ? No, sir, the cause of the decay of some of oar cathedral towns is not from the presence of the cathedral, bat from other causes. None of those cities which are dwindling down are situate in a populous mining or manufacturing district such as Wrexham is the centre of, and it is the height of absurdity to say that if we brought into the town some dozen or more clergy, the trade of the town woold become dull. Do the people of Liverpool or Birmingham, or the other large towns where agitations are being carried on for the establishment of episcopal sees therein, do the inhabitants of these towns believe the doctrine ? Certainly not. If the removal of the bishop's see from St. Asaph to Wrexham is to lead to de- cay, this latter will be not the decay of the trade of the town, bat the decay of crime and sin, the disappearance not of happy, thriving tradesmen, but of besotted drunkards and others, whose doing are the corse of the community. The more I think over the matter, the more does it appear to be necessary for something to be done to make our cathedral staff mare in harmony with the spirit of the age.-Yoars truly, A CHURCHMAN. Wrexham, February 16,1875. I I MOLD LOCAL BOARD. SIR,-A letter with the heading Mold School Board," bat which referred to the busi- ness of the Local Board, appeared in your issue of the 6th inst., in which the latter body were accused with something like maladministration of the public money. With much of what appears in that letter I heartily agree, and I think it likely to be productive of good. We have a yearly rate of Is. 6d. in the pound for local pur- poses, and I think we ought to have one of 2s. 6d. With a rate of that amount we could provide for the making, kerbing, and channelling of new streets, much to the advantages of owners of property of every description. For if a man builds a house in the middle of a field, is it not right that the town should make a road to it, and keep it in repair, seeing that the owner contri- butes to the rates ? Owing to the small rate which has been made in Mold for years, Stanley Place and Gladstone Terrace have not been pro- vided with proper roads, and a large sum of the rates comes from that quarter. In some towns those who build houses are compelled to form the roads, pathways, and channels, but in Mold we are not so miserly, and the public are politely re- quested to do out of the rates, what the owners ought to do for themselves. Quite right too, for does not the property contribute to the rates? Certainly the public money goes to improve private property, but let us be generous. Wages are very high and house rent is very low in Mold as everybody knows, so those who build the houses cannot afford to make them habitable without a little aid from the rates. Garden Place is a paradise in its way. It is, every inch of it, private property, but that is only a reason why the improvement of it should not be saddled oft the town, so that the rates which are now much too light should be made so that people could feel them. Everybody that knows Bridge Street is acquainted with the great expense to which owners of houses in that district have gone to in order to provide a habitation for those who would crowd into the town. In doing so, they have deserved the public thanks, and what is more, the town ought to acknowledge its indebtedness by presenting the owners with a bonus, by way of channelling the whole of that increasing and prosperous neighbourhood. It would be much more comfortable, and besides, if that were done, the rent collector need not soil his boots in going his usual rounds. Clay Lane is very populous, and it has an immeuse traffic, still a load or two of broken stones would not be out of place. Henfford-street and Milford-street, to speak seriously, are much out of repair. A little would rectify matters and I am surprised the inhabitants have borne it so long. A matter of 210 would do as much as is required for the present winter, and they are fairly entitled to greater notice at the hands of the surveyor than they have obtained hitherto. The road leading from the Britannia Inn, Wrexham-street te the pinfold at Glanrafon is also much out of repair. I am told it has not been cleaned once during this winter. Surely a little might be done to this road, Henfford-street, and Milford-street, without increasing the amount of the rate, but it will be time enough to expend public money on the other places named when the owners have once put them in a proper state of repair, which has not been done as yet. As to Garden Place it would be illegal for the Board to spend one half-penny upon it, seeing that it is not a highway at all. MARCUS. CHURCH PREFERMENT IN THE DIO- CESE OF ST. ASAPH. SIB,- Y oor two correspondents of .last week who write on the different phases of this ques- tion appear strangely sensitive with regard to the bishop's recent appointment to the living of Wrexham. Old Wrexham," as he calls him- self, is evidently stiongly prejudiced as nothing will ever persuade him that your last week's paff of the new vicar was in good taste." After read- ing this I re-read your leading artiele on the question, and for my life I could not find out the pttff or the bad taste. Failing to find it there I glanced again at the sketch given of the new • vicar and find it avowedly drawn from extra- neons sources. This account does appear highly eulogistic, and if any one has a right to com- plain of it, it is Mr Howell himself, who is des- cribed in language, he will find difficult to fully realise. Bat for myself, as one of the Old Church congregation, I must say I read it with great pleasure. We were all anxious to hear what character our new vicar had from his last e-ace, and you gave it uidrom several sources. Old Wrexham," by a comparison of the old with the new, shows rather bad taste himself, and were it not that I should be foIlowiBg his bad example I I might retaliate with effect. Carrying the argument of taste a little further, where is the taste of introducing the question of the relative values of the livings of Cardiff and Wrexham? To quote your correspondent, nothing will ever persuade me" that this is in good taste. Moreover, is it true ? I am assured on what I consider good authority, that Old Wrexham" is in error. That taking the late vicar's official returns in reply to the Bishop's Visitation Queries, the net value of Cardiff is greater than that of Wrexham. And in addition to this, Mr Howell's late parishioners have, by their voluntary contributions, doubled the legal income. I can understand the clergy of the diocese being annoyed at the most important living being given to a stranger; but in reply to this, I would ask who is there in the diocese that the Old Church congregation would have selected as a fit and proper person for so important a living ? I do not wish to carry this argument into a per- sonal one, lest my geod taste should be questioned by such an exquisite judge as Old Wrexham." Nothing but the necessity of obtaining a suitable person for the place would justify the bishop in looking beyond his diocese for a successor to our late viear, and this, we believe, has been his lordship's only motive, judging from report, and we all feel deenly grateful for the consideration. Under the present regime we are not treated to Hughes' as in former times we had inundations of Luxmores and Shorts. So far as our present carates are concerned, I do not think they can justly complain of the bishop's treatment. Mr Davies has had two offers of preferment and Mr Dixon one, I believe, and these have been declined. These livings might not have been eqaal to expectation, or even equal to their deserts, bat they were what were open to the bishop at the time, and their acceptance would no doubt have led up to something better. Probably a little experience of our new vicar will modify what might have been too eulogistic in the Cardiff reports, and also what is a little annoying to the friends of those clergy who have apparently been passed over, and at the same time that spirit of charity which should listin- guish Churchmen in their communications and their intercourse with each other will, I hope, be duly exercised by our clergy and laity towards each other and towards their bishop.—I am, sir, yours faithfully, YOUNG WREXHAM. MRS WHITE'S ORPHAN HOME, THE BEEHIVE." Sir,—However unwilling I may feel to obtrude my Home before the public, I consider it due to its supporters to publish a statement of the work- ing of the institution since its foundation in Jan., 1871 up to the present time, and show how the money so kindly contributed has been disposed of. The Orphan Home and Industrial Training School was nrst established in a cottage at Gres- ford. It consisted of 6 workhouse girls and 2 Gresford orphans. Seven of these children are in service; one has been three years in the same place two others two years, and the other above one year. The eighth girl is still in the Home as too young for service. After six months the Home was removed to Wrexham. There great difficulty arose in finding a house as many per- sons objected to having a workhouse school near them. Finally, Hope-street House was secured, but only for a time as it was found unsafe, and it has since been palled down. Afterwards two houses were taken in Rhosddu. The number of girls had now increased to 12 and 14 at times. These houses were so ansuitea in every way ior training the children that after mature considera- tion I proposed building a Home. A desirable site was accordingly found, and half an acre of land purchased of Sir Robert Canliffe for 9360, upon which I built the Home at a cost of £1260. The freehold of the Home is vested in the names of three trustees, and a trust deed prepared, in which provision is made for the government of the Home, the appointment of fature trustees, and also, if circumstances in the fature should render it necessary, for the final disposal of the property, in trust to the Wrexham Infirmary. The Home is thus the property of the public for ever. The number of orphan children who have passed through the Home since 1871, including its present inmates, amounts to 76, oat of that I number 23 have come from the workhouse, of whom two only were returned as incorrigible. A blind child from the workhouse, after remaining one year in the Home, through the intervention of kind friends, is now an inmate of Henshaw's Blind Asylum, Manchester, and spent her Christ- mas holidays at the Home. Another cripple child from the workhouse was transferred from the Home to the Cripple's Home, in London, and is already able to plait bonnets. A deaf and dumb girl has been placed in the School for Mutes, in Liverpool. The training of girls aimed at in the Home is such as they would have in a cottage under a good mother. Tht-y are taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, sew- ing, marking, knitting (no fancy work is allowed), and mnch attention is paid to the three ologies" -Scrub-ology, Wash-ology, and Cook-ology. They make all their owa clothes. I have a ma- tron and also a resident teacher. When girls have once entered the Home I have never lost sight of them, except in a few instances where relations have claimed them. I correspond with all my children. I have determined, that I might have room to spare, never to increase the number beyond twenty, as it is so de- sirable the girls should feel that they have always a home to return to for a short time on leaving a place till re-engaged. Otherwise, if the girls should become homeless and unprotected, or be treated with harshness and unkindness in their situations, they would be led into temptation and misery, and feeling they had no mother or friends to ap- peal to, would lose all self-respect, and thus it is we see so many filling our prisons and peniten- tiaries. Another advantage of only 20 children is that you find out their individual character, and it would be impossible to be as a mother to a larger number. I can testify to the children's love and gratitude and their letters to me after leaving the Home show that the inflaence and • 1 _L a 1_ mL love shown to them is not xosc upon luem. xux Home is always open to visitors, and I am de- lighted to show the bright happy faces of the chil- dren within its walls. The work has been won- derfully supported, as I commenced with E30 only, and I have often had only JE1 left in hand, and God has blessed the work by keeping for four years the children free from sickness, and strengthening me to continue the arduous work in faith. I beg to submit the accounts of the money en- trusted to me, and hope ere long to free the Home from the present building debt, which has been a caose of deep anxiety to me. A. school for cookery is aboat to be opened. For ladies one week, and servants the other. Statement of Accounts since its Commencement, January, 1871. 1871. £ s. d. X s. d. Receipts. 358 10 11 ) Expenditure. 2ou 15 7 1872. X s. d. £ s. d. Receipts. 313 4 0 ) Expenditure. 255 6 0 1873. £ a. d. £ s. d. Receipts. 278 18 9 ) Expenditure. 226 2 5i 1874. zC s. d. Z s. d. Receipts. 296 11 511 Expenditure. 244 8 9t Surplus of 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874. Surplus 295 16 5 Donations for building fund 870 5 3 jei,166 1 8 Paid for building i 050 0 0 Balance in hand 116 1 8 91,166 1 8 I LISETTE WHITE. I Bodbyfryd, Wrexham, Feb. 10, 1875.

"I BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM- F'ORTING. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the tine pro- perties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured bever- age which may save us many heavy doctors' bills."— Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with Boiling Water or Milk. Each packet is labelled—"JAMES EPPS AND Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London." MANUFACTURE OF COCOA.—"We will now give an account of the process adopted by Messrs James Epps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, Lendon.see article ia Cassell's Household Guide. 392

i Fun for the Family. CHAIN VALE:Ti o I oads of matrimoiay To SUFFERERS: Bunion's Pilgrim's Progress, -Fun. THE OBSERVED of all observell" Venns ia her transit. WHAT PART of a shop is like every other part The counter-part. WHY ARE LOVERS' VOWS like pork sausages Because they're friable.-Fun. MATRIMONY.— (By onr musical cynio) TIFF common c(h)ord of two flats.-Puitch. WHAT THE CIVIL SERVICE W ANTS.-Less at Playfair and more of Fairll y.-Punch. How PATRICK proposes to pot over his single blessedness—By proposing to Bridget it. SHAKSPERIAN NOTION OF ECDNOMY.—"A ta11- ner will last ytlu nine year.Hamlet, Act V. Soc. 1. -Punch. IF the Marqais of Hartington has not the elo- quence of Mr Gladstone, he is not qaitQ » '*Lieder ohne Worte.Punch. ONE OF OUR COMPOSITORS is troubled W;"Ie the sad refl, otion that there is only an em (re) difference between creation and cremation.—Ftt». IT IS AUTHORITATIVELY stated that, bein-w unable to decorate the lord mayor, the French Government intend to clean the Mansion Hocsc, -Fun. BROWN: Mornin', fresh mornin', ain't it Smith: 'Course it is; every morning's a fresh morning! By-by (Brown's temper all day is quite unbearable) DEDICATED TO HER MAJESTY'S NAVY TECR ROYAL YACHT CLUBS, ASD THE MERCANTILE MARINE.—Which are the best Binnacle Lights ? Stearine Candles, of coarse !-Punch.- A LEADING wholesale liquor house in a western city received a telegram from one of the southern cities a few days ago, to this effect Send 100 twenty barrels of whiskpy-the Legislature is ia session.American paper. TRAVELLER (in Ireland) Hi! Pall her up, man Don't you see the mare is rnuning away:" Paddy floald tight yer 'oner; for yer life don't touch ."e reins Sare they're as rotten a3 pears. I'll turn her into the river at the bridge below here; surd that'll stop her, the blaggard i -Punch. RECENT AMERICAN.—Papers report the case of a gentleman who was forcibly expelled when bi ventured to express his disapprobation by hissing in an American theatre. Let as hope if the saras hiss-try-on-ic experiment were made on this side the water it would be rewarded instead ol piinished.-Punch. BEN, the billmaster (to the Lord Chancellor, and Messrs. Crosa, AJderley, Northcote, antl Hardy, each bearing a bill): Now, my lads Nothing like an early start and a brisk step oil So, put your best fronts foremost! Display yoxa bills 'andsome, keep moving, and look as 'appy 33 you can !Punch. JONES There's always something new. The valentine makers are even following Darwin Bow Brown Nonsense Jones: 1;:3 true. Oat of half-a-dozen valeutines that I got yesterday, no less than five had some reference to the theory of man's descent from monkeys. Blowed if I believe it, thongb.Fuu. A PLEASANT PROSPECT. The new cook DRB been strongly recommended but the first threo dinners have been something too dreadful, and the mistress has ventured on a few words. Wei], mem, I dessay you think you're right; but where- ever I've been cook before, they in general fouiwl it best to take things as I give 'em 'em.JutlV> AN AMUSING report comes from the Wes. r ol England. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen made a political speech which was duly reported, and oa the following day Mr Hugessen wrote to one of the papers as follows I am reported to hava said, Mr. Disraeli, before whom the rest of the Government quail like whipped hounds befora there master." My words were, I Mr Disraeli, who towers about the rest of the Government liko a giant among pigmies. AN IRISHMAN and a Dutchman once met each other travelling along a road, and as they ap- proached, each smiled, thinking that he met in • 1 .1 11 • > me ocner some oia acquaintance. Uu coming near enough to find his mistake, eat, expressing his disappointment, said, with a knowing shake of his head—"Ah, sure, an' I thought it was you, an' yoa thoaght it was me, but it's nether of us 44 Yes," replied the Dutchman, "Dal is dhru. You is yourself, and I am anuder man. We pe poth some other podies." TJIE MANAGER of a provincial theatre was mnch annoyed by complaiats sonceraiu- the aggravat- ing height of feminine-hats in his audiences. He made no boisterous observations he gave ED stern Ordtlil not he. H; merely printed in large let'ers on his playbills this masterpiece of genics: The manager begs that all good-looking ladiea will remove their hats for the accomodation of the rest of the. audience. The aged, the bald, and the plain are not expected to comply with this request." From that auspicious night :he scar- Ing Donner, ana tne mountainous hat were inv:siole at that wise man's theatre. AT A DINNER PARTY given by a publisher at his villa at Epping, there was present a Scotch gen- tleman who had set up in basioess in Dablin, aiall, who, from long residence, bad required national proclivities, and j uet enough of the brogue "to swear by." Douglas Je r dd, who was also pre- sent, on hearing the assumed accent, called oat You need not pretend that sort of thing, sir; everybody can see through it. Yoa have no right, sir, to speak with a brogue." Bat I have lived for thirty years in the country, and I cannot help it." Yes," replied Jerrold, 44 you have squired many of the vaults of ihe Celtic race, but although yoa have lost your own nationality, you have ga'ned none of the Irish genuis. Sir, yoa are a potato without iiavoar, aud a thistle without point." A NO-E SHOW lately took place in a little town of Austria. The largest and ngliest got toe first prize. There were three priz s. Eight, nosos competed for the prizes. None of them, we think, however, woald have stoad a ghost of chance with b 4Old Boots," of Ripon, who was known in the eighteenth century as a boof-cleaner to a hos° telry in that town. He was reu;,rkab.e ior a very long nose, carving downwards, and extending an inch and a quarter beyond his lips, aa.1 a chin which exteaded straight before him, and almost met his m se. When visitors at the iuu gave him a gratuity, he received it with his chin and held it fast there with bis nose till ha deposited it in his money-box. W.th his nose he could rah his chin, and used to create great diversion among the servant maids by attempting to kiss them, a feat he never could accomplish. Ho tarneil his face sideways to get a kiss, and his nose and chin caught the rosy cheeks like a pair of crab claws. But, to kiss was an impossibility; for when he had thus fastened the damsel, hia moatii was opened and could not be closed."

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