Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

SMILERS. -91 I hear that Trotter has failed for half a million." Lucky dog I'd fail myself for that amount." —" I don't like our new waitress," said little Waldo. Why not?" asked his mamma. She spoke to me before we were introduced." -Mis Keneen They called in Dr. Piller to set Jones's leg." Dr. Keneen (a ri val tlf Filler) Piller 3et a leg Why, lie coul lii'L set a hen. -He (winhing to he confidential) Pardon, MIPS Rosalie, inais les enfants ont oreilles- Enfant spite- fully Yea, and they know French, too. -Air Duffy: 1 be afther breakin' me glasses, an' want new ones. Optician What number ? Ml Duffy Two, av coorse. D'yez take me for a dude ? —Maddox (waking from a nap) I must have been sound asleep.—Gazzam (who had been annoyed by Maddox's snoring) You were. I heard the sound. —Johnny (sobbing): D=es it re.really h-h-hurt you to wh-whip me, mamma ? Ma: Yes, my son very much more than it hurts you. Johnny (drying his eyes) I'm so glad. i Your hard-wood floorB are always so exquisitely polished. How do you manage to keep them BO ?"— I put chamois-skin trousers on the children, and let them play on the lfoor." Ward Why did you bite that dollar vou lent to me-to see if it was cood ? Randall: I wasn't biting it; I was kissing it good bye. -11 We've got to economize, Maud," said Henry. It is absolutely necpssary." "Ve.y well," returned Maud, "1 shall give np yonr ciarp." "And I will do without a new bonnet," said Henry. -First little girl (in art gallery) I heard a lady say these pictures of old violins were studies in still life. What did she innazi ? Second little girl Why, you know a picture of a violin can't make any noise. —Maria You've got to take the baby now, I'm tired. You've only had him an hour, George." I know that but I've fa:tlIed my pedometer to him, and I've trotted him fifty-three miles. lhat's enough —The Poor Young Man Mr Croema, I would like tJ marry your daughter Old C.» u* Ah yyu love her. sir ? The Poor Young Man 1%1 k-ily. Old Cicesus Which one ? The Poor Young M-Lii Oh, either of them. You don't call this a furnished house, do you ? Raid the house-seeker. Certainly, returned the Agent. "It has fifteen rooms, a cellar, a furnace, lfues, roof, chimneys, floors, ceilings, plumbing. I never knew a. house betler furnished than that." -A parish cleik opologised to a church dignitary who had been summoned to take a service at a email village church I am sorry, air. to have brought such a gentleman as you to this poor little place. A worse gentleman would have done if we had only known where to find him. -11 What have you to say to Pompey's charge, Eastus, that you atole his chicken ? "J edge, I doan pay no 'tention to de ineinifications ob Envy. hatrid, an' malice. Jest because I got dat ar' hen, an ft ini up, dat ole Pomp be gone 'n' got jealous. Darfi-, jedge, I ain't got nuffin' ter say." -11 Why will you associate with such men as Flimse ?" asked Brown. For my part, I always endeavor to associate with men who are my super- iors." It can't he hard woik for you to fina them. replied Fog^s but I am different from you. I am always wi?ng that my friends Bhould associate with their superiors." -Little Boreman But have you ever heard Pennul, t sing the Tower Song" from "II Trovat(,re ?" He does it magnificently, don't you know. I heard him sine it at J arvisoil's the other evening, and it posi. tively carried ins awfly !-Captain Dowler (to the host) Then get him to sing it aow, Smithkins, if you possibly can 1 -Here is » hit of conscious wit. John Mann had been sent by his wife to market to sell the pig. On the way he p t drunk, the pig strayed and never turned up again. A iew weeks afterwards John was asked if he had heard anything of the pig yet." 'Eard of 'im," be eaid-" 'card of 'im ? Ou, ay, I 'ears of 'im most dayB -Doctor, You notice a marked increase in your anoetite '—Patient: Yes.-Doctor: St?ep loncer and m? heavily than ?al ?-Putient Yes.-Doctor Feef very fatigued after much ex.rc?e ?-Panent.: Y? -Dtoctor :H'm Very grave case. But the re ?arche of science, sir. enable us to cope wuh J our ma?dy? and I think I can pall you through. -There is undoubtedly a good deal of advantage in learning forein tongues from a nurse in chddhocd, but it ea,ilv posibla to do this at the expense of E??s If the child is not to know its mother Xe there is not a good deal cf advantage in hav.?g a em?terfng of a foreign tongue. On the pitzzt of a F???'??1 were observed, not long since, a group of over-dresfsed children, -hi we.b«». »u.»e out for a walk, ullder the care of a governess, who was f°r a^aL;bW Fiench Maudie," a small boy of m,Q Baia to his sister. -? the Fraul-in ?a.KO;t? n to ?commee ? ??." the S'? answered, "?c eit'gu rand I be awful gb.d she ain't well ?g morning." Tliese children had a French and a German ?rn?atthes?m?timp, but neither of them was bothered about so unimportant a matter as E. gh.h. -Scene A Clicket Match. Dramatis Pel'sona   both rUII ?,; thr« Ladv-" I can't think." Third Lady-" 1 ? SSer tl'ev don't have two balls, and bowl from both end, tht>Y would have much more play, (Umpire call-i "oçer.") s.eond Lady-" Why are EI? v Pall wa^inr about now? First Lady-" I °" tiiink thev must want to stop and talk a bit. TH L!'o1}- Which side do 5»» take?" Fi'« T u Oh, 1 want the man who is Btandmg up F'? ? to win he has got such pretty coat "on!" Second Lady-" I wonder muc^lon^er vve f I feel very dull. Firt Lady-" It -? go away too soon, or people will think we Wr like it Third Lady—"1 wish I knew a ?" K?.?M 1?" "? to know   ??"?,r?;??  keep on 8aying -1 Run it out I' whenever either of Sft&S-ifc. ? ]people will '"? ?'' know a lot about it. -There is a temperance les80n in the following aanneeccddoottee A farmer once employed a young man to labor upon his farm w"it5 hout knowing anything of his Kbrt.Tonh farmer found that his new h:atj?u.'nte?Bere ?\?'??"'? and this babit interfered with his usefulms". John, said the farmer J° "1' "p?<veyooneo'mybp8t J"lkin. while ye work for me." l'lP » btt'n^d «larr,h= man, A grown son of the farme, o erhearing this agreement looked up and asked, "Pa, will you give me a slieep, too.  will not drink this season? Ye*, rej .eai the -?tatneerr, ?.yJ?""???p." ? t??.eb.y spoke up, Mid said, Pa, will you give me a f'heep. too, if I'll not drink?" Ye", son, you shall have a ????_? ?..?p., ?;)) you givemoa?hepp. turned to his f£ ather, aanna dTaid, » pa, hadn't you better take a sheep too?" 46 I dunnn, I dunno „ the father suddenly conclu d e d "I replied,  .nd.h? .n'dd.nh.Ou.).? "I £ cuy it and The old gentleman was beard afterward to declare that he made the best in- vLtment of sheep that season he ever made in s. life. -Some offerers of distinction were visiting the scene of a celebrated echo in the Western Highlands, being led to the place ?by a sturdy Hihlander. On reaching the spot where ? trial was to be made the ?de p? his hands to his mouth and bawled out a fentence in Gaelic, which was f?.thfut!y retran?mttted ?tbee&rB of his audi?r.. Thereupon one of the se?tlemen, WWl a view to trying the strength of I!i-?; ?,ic?. ca)led out, How far are we from home and back rolled the echo in language quite as distinct that sent ticror,. VVeel, ?'e?. <I"? ?'0? ever ?" ex claimed the fruu-e. "T1 hat is ?? g?? tnne.g?n;te. men,  h?.er L?nw th?ch. could sp.ak E?I.:sh:' "Dh, tS Sat is nothing?" said one of the g.ntlmer, laughiDK at the simplicity ? theguMe; and be Ie !??that ? '?'?? "?,;L,t in French Spani.h, ?d p?e"a??'Td ? a L?w que and bewilderment. .??ystihcat.on ?d bewilderment. w.- Umet- Sw BnM ?Uft, when echo has ot iti eddication bEats l?e to telI, for S'.?t.e.? S country sae long W faither an' me can mind 0

I GENERAL NEWS. f -In the Queen's Bench Division on Tuesday. Mrs Lucy Smith, a divorced woman, obtained 2100 damages for breach of promise from Frederick Kightly, the man who had been co-respondeat in the divorce suit. -At the Central Criminal Court. London, on Mon- day, a French-polisher named Frederick Harvey, who had been found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife by stabbing her in the breast, was sentenced by Mr Justice Hawkins to penal servitude for twenty years. -Farmer Przytarski, in ploughing up his potato fields at Abbau Karszyn, unearthed an urn con- taining about a thousand gold and silver coins of various denominations. The coins, which are in a state of good preservation, belong to the period of !tuhe Thirty Years' War, and are of great value. -That American ladies are by no means indifferent to the charnn of a good complexion is proved by the fact that sixty-two million dollars are annually spent in the United States alone upon cosmetics. Mutton fat enters largely into the composition of some of the most high-priced of these articles. -Mr G. B. Taylor, merchant's agent and broker, committed suicide at his office in Old hall-street, Liverpool, on Tuesday, by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver. Mr Taylor was a son-in- law of the late Henry Wlialley, to whom, it is stated, he had entrusted a large sum of money, the whole of which it is supposed is lost. -The Queen visited London on Monday to make personal inquiries with regard to the condition of Prince George, and received satisfactory assurances from the Prince and Princess of Wales and one of the physicians in attendance. Her Majesty also called at St. James' Palace, where she saw Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, who has been for some time indisposed. —A professional nurse named Herbert Fearvent, an Englishman, who was employed to attend a wealthy young invalid named Howelry Clifford, at New York, became enamoured of the patient's wife, and having been discharged for making advances to her, shot her fatally and took poison himself, from the effect of which he, however, i. expected to recover. -The French miners on strike have refused to accept the five delegates appointed by the Govern- ment to act as a Committee or Arbitration between them and the employers. They allege that the members chosen are without practical experience, and hat no sympathy with the miners. The Municip I Council of Paris has voted a grant of £4:80 in aid of the men on strike. —Mgr. Gouthe-Souiand, Archbishop of Air, appeared on Tuesday before the Court of Appeal in Paris to answer the charge of having violated the law by writing a defiant letter to the Minister of Justice in reply to the circular of the latter de- siring all the French prelates to abstain from participation in the pilgrimages to Rome. The Archbis-hop was sentenced to pay a fine of j6120. -Dr James Caspar Clutterbuck, a clergyman of the Church of England and one of her Majesty's luf-pectors of Workhouse schools, pleaded guiity at the Somerset Assizes on Saturday to six in- dictments, charging him with obtaining £16 500 by false pretences. Mr Matthews informed the ci-urt that altogether the prisoner had obtained 1:35 600. Mr Justice Give passed sentence of four years' penal servitude. -Ou Sunday the dead bodies of two football players of the Castle End Rovers, named George Smith and Mitchell Killg. were found on the rail- way at West Hartlepool. They had been playing at West Hartlepool during the afternoon of Satur- day, and missed the last train home at night. They then set off to walk along the line. Both were knocked down and killed by a passing train, which had approached unnoticed. Smith was married. —A minute has been issued by the Education Department dealing with the funds applicable to science, art, and technical instruction placed at the disposal of County Councils and County Boroughs under the Acts of the last two sessions. Broadly speaking, the intention is to rely upon local effort for the management and support of elementary instruction in science at the next May examina- tions but at the same time the payments for the advanced stage and for honors will be considerably increased. —A cyclist named Mills was found in the roadway near Dover on Sunday afternoon with his bicycle lying upon him. The finder waited near him half an hour hoping for assistance to arrive, and when help was furthcoming Mills was dead. Death is supposed to have occurred from heart disease. Deceased had been r:ding between Sandwich and Dover, and was chief engineer on her Majesty's postcffice steamer Lidy Carmichael at Dover. He leaves a wife and fainiiy. —A dastardly act was committed at Canford Manor, the Dorset seat of Lord Wimborne, on Saturday night. The grounds surrounding the house are amongst the most beautiful in the South of England, and contained, up to Saturday, some valuable pieces of statuary. Late on Saturday evening, however. 27 of these were thrown down, together with eight valuable garden vases. Seven- teen of the statues were literally battered to pieces, whilst the others were seriously damaged. The damage amounts to quite £ 2,000. Two per. sons were arrested. -At the Westminster Town Hall on Monday, Mr John Troutbeck, the Westminster coronei, held an inquiry respecting the death of the female child (.f Maria Trickridge. late housekeeper at 31, Coburg-row, Westminster, whose mutilated body was found in the front garden of that address. Dr. Francis James Pearce, examined a portion of the body of a female child. He had since made a post mortem examination, and found the lungs had been fully inflated. Suffocation was, he thought, the cause of death. The jury returned a verdict that the d, e-eaeed was stillborn. —The gunboat Swinger arrived at Plymouth about mid-night on Sunday. She has taken more than six months on her voyage home from Australia. After leaving Gibraltar she ecountered a terrible gale, and as she had a very narrow escape of being pooped the captain was obliged to heave to. She was fifty-five hours rolling and pitching in terrific seas, and it was found necessary to batten down fore and aft. Thunder and lightning added to the terrors d the scene, and the greatest anxiety prevailed amongst all on board. On the morning of the 14th inet., the weather moderated, and the Swinger reached Vigo on the following day. —The Divorce Division was again engaged on Tuesday with the petition of a London hairdresser naniecl tVattlf-i-, for di vorca from his wife because I of her alleged misconduct with a customer named Kimber. It appeared at the former hearing that Mrs Wattler, by practising upon her husband, had become an expert shaver, and had made Kimber's acquaintance while shaving customers. Last week the jury found that the charge of adultery was not established against the co-respondent, but as re- spondent did not defend the suit, it rested with his lordship to decide the question of her guilt or innocence. The judge now said that he had come to the conclusion that the court ought not to Ie- fuse a di vorce as against the wife. He, therefore, granted a decree nisi. —The usual sensational stories regaiding Monte Carlo circulated at this season, a correspondent telegraphs, must be received with distrust. There has beeu no specially high play so far, except by the Due de Dino. and certainly no Englishman has lost one hundred thousand pounds. It is true that many people come from England wisiiing to emulate Mr Wells, and many of them are ladies. So far they have been unifonnly unsuccessful, and are leaving sadder and wiser, l'he Duo de Dino plays a Napoleonic game, arrives at the Casino late in the evening, never takes a seat at the table, but stands behind the croupiers armed with a bundle of notes of from six to eight thousand pounds value. These he stakes in successive maximums, on series of six numbers, and on passe or marque in one turn of the wheel. On Wed- nesday he won three maximums, or eighteen thou- sand franc.3 but though very successful that evening, he has lost on the whole. -At a luncheon given by a well-known hostess in St. Louis a short time ago, there stood in the centre of the round table a large circle of pink roses on a bank of ferns. From the centre ruse a high lamp trimmed with pink ribbons, and with a shade of palest blue silk, on which were laid sprays of roses with buds and leaves. Over each guest's menu card was placed a perfect rose. Beside each plate stood a basket made of violets, the handles tied with pink ribbons. A small bottle of Epernay peeped out from each basket. The wine glasses were all of the finest cut glass. The ices, in the shape of roses, were served in miniature Petit Trianon hats made of blue silk and tied with pink ribbons. Punch was in a cup shaped like a water lily on pink plates tied with broad blue ribbon, into which was tied a hunch of pink roses that lay round the lily cup. One of the entries, a dish of sweetbreads, was served on a set of Sevres plates a hundred years old, and worth a small fortune. -Details are given by the Bosnian papers of the strange career of a woman named Mila who has been sentenced to death by the disttict court of Pazarevac, in Servia. This woman has for ten years been the terror of North-Eastern Servia. In 1881 a prize of 200 ducats was off-red for her capture, two years later 500 were offered, and in 1890 the promised reward was increased to a thousand ducats. She had a band of devoted Haiducks with whom she committed her robberies. She never went about otherwise than in man's diCSS, with all her weapons in her belt and a rifle over her shouhler. Young, handsome, and a perfect markswoman, &he was tha beau-ideal of her band. She had a 1ol'er named Petrovitch, who fell ill some time ajjo, and whom she nursed with devotion in a cave on the Roumanian frontier. Her people told her in good time that she was watched and muat fly for Eaft ty, but she refused to abandon her sick lover. After a battle with the gendarmes, two of whom she killed, she was captured. In the court she spoke for over an hour in her defence and when sentence was pronounced listened ta it with stolid indifference,

I WELSH AND BORDER NEWS. -Primroses have recently been gathered near Abergele. -At Carnarvon on Monday two men were each fined 2s 6d and costs for illegally fishing with lights and gaffs. —A memorial window erected by members of the Mostyn family to the late Lorsl and Lady Moatyn was on Sunday unveiled at LlanThos Church, Llan- dudno. —The committee appointed by the Holyhead Guardians to in vestigate a rumour that a woman died of starvation at Holyhead, are sstified there is no foundation for the report. -At Carnarvon Assizes on Tuesday, Naoi Owens, charged with having attempted to murder her husband at Gerazim, Llanfairfechan, was declared to be insane, and Mr Justice Vauehan Williams directed her to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. -Mr William Morris, who for the past six years has been superintendent of the northern section of the Great Western Railway, has been promoted to the position of assistant superintendent of the Company s system, and will shortly leave Cheater for London. —Six shopkeepers from the' Llanllyfni district were summoned under the Food and Drugs Act for sellin a substitute for paregoric and spirits of nitre not of the strength prescribed by the British Pharmacopoeia. Fines of 2s 6d and costs were im- posed in each instance. —On Tuesday, Mr F. A. Dew, Colwyn Bay, sold by auction, at the Lion Hotel, Dolgelley, the freehold property called" Plas Captaia," having an area of 160 acres. It realised £2,330, or thi-ty- six years' purchase upon the present rental. Mr G. J. Humphreys, Ruthin, was the vendor's solicitor. —W. H. Daviee, solicitor's clerk. Conway, pleaded guilty at Carnarvon Assizes on Tuesday to having embezzled various sums of money belonging to his employer, Mr James Porter, solicitor. Mr Marshall addressed the court in mitigation of sentence. As a deterrent to others placed in similar positions of trust, the judge sentenced the accused to nine months' imprisonment. —The Cardiff stipendiary gave judgment on Tues- day, in a case in which John Davies, of the Napier Hotel, Cardiff, was charged with keeping a betting house, and Samuel Hughes and George Quinnell were charged with frequenting the place for betting on the occasion of the Cardiff races. The stipendiary dismissed the case under the Licensing Act, but fined Davies £25 for permitting betting. The others were fined JE5 each. —The following students from the North Wales University College, Bangor, have been successful at the recent B Sc. and B A. examinations of the University of Loudon :—B.Sc. D. O. S Davies, Miss Winifred Ellen Davies (first division). Miss A. Gertrude Clarke, William Williams (second division.) B.A. (second division) Miss M. S. AUcock, John Davies, Miss Martha B. Evans, Miss M. J. Findlay, and Charles Arthur Parry. —On Saturday a serious accident occurred to the Colwyn Bay subway, the excavations of which are 23 feet under the North-western main lines. A goods train shunting caused a fall of twenty tons of eaith and timber, the latter severely crushing a laborer named John Pierce, who was released only after thirty minutes' labor, ucder the directions of Mr Win. Jones, Local Board surveyor. Another laborer's ear was half cut from the head. Drs. Williams and Wood attended the sufferers. —The principal shops at Llangefni have for some months been closed at four o'clock every Friday afternoon, but on a recent Friday one of the shop- keepers opened. The shop assistants thereupon formed a procession, and preceded by the town crier, and two of their number carrying lamps on poles, asked the people to support the early closing movement. They marched through the streets of the town. Everything passed off in an orderly way, and all the shops were closed at four last Friday. —Prizes of the total value of £6,000 will be offered at the Eisteddfod to be held in connection with the Columbian Exhibition m 1893, and among those who have made up their minds to cross the Atlantic and take part in the competitions are the famous Dowlais Harmonic Choir. The Dowlais Choir are going ohiefly for honor, as although the best choir at the Eisteddfod will receive a prize of £1,000, and the second best choir a sum of £800. yet to take a chorus of 200 voices to America will. it is estimated, cost about £5,000, a portion, if not all, of which sum the party hope to raise by a series of concerts given in various parts of the United States. The Eisteddfod will last five days, and will be held in the concert hall of the Exhibi- tion. —Liverpool is about to fall in with a new fashion of the cyclists, and organise a grand lantern parade and procession. In compliance with the request of a deputation from a committee composed of mem- bers of the cycling clubs in that city, the Mayor of Liverpool has extended his patronage to the pro- posed display, which will take place on the evening of Monday, December 14. The riders will be ex- pected to appear as far as possible in fancy costume. It is stated that the War Office have been approached with » view to the cyclist mem- bers of the volunteer corps of the city taking part in the parade. The deputation having expressed a wish that the Liverpool lantern parade shall benefit the cause of charity, it is expected that the Stanley Hospital will, in accordance with the Mayor's sug- gestion, become the recipient of £100, partly from collections to be made along the line of route. —At Friday's meeting of the Conway Guardians Mr Borthwick called attention to the pauperism return issued by Mr Murray Browne. Conway Union from being one of the highest in the return was one of the lowest. In fact, it occupied the foremost position of all, in regard to what may be termed the purely Welsh unions, as Wrexham, Hawarden, and Forden, which were also included in the return, were very strongly permeated with the English element, whilst Conway was not.—The Chairman said in the Wrexham Uuion there were several parishes purely Welsh,—Mr Borthwick said the ad. vance in the position of the Conway Union was almoet entirely due to an enormous increase in the population since the last census, there being an augmentation of no fewer than 6,000 persons—a circumstance uuparalled by any other Union in North Wales. The increase in the population was not spasmodic, and the next census would probably show a further augmentation. —The Rev. Ernest J. A. FitzRoy, preaching on Sunday at St. Jude'a, Liverpool, on the events of the ecclesiastical year, said n-any dioceses in Eng- land were in a more unsatisfactory state than those in Wales, and it was quite clear that the chairman of the conference and public meeting in Liverpool on Friday night had utterly failed to realise what the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Chester and Manchester had said at Rhyl. They seemed to threaten the Primate with an attack on the English Church if he dared to throw his aigis over gallant little Wales. What the archbishop and bishops had said was in effect that they would not allow piecemeal disestablishment of the Church, and that the whole Church of England would stand or fall together. Mr Samuel Smith, M.P., had gone into matters quite alien to the question, but his attack on the doctrines of the Church was a curious commentary on the assertion that the opposition was not to the Church qu& Church, but to her State character. —A series of extraordinary sensations occurred during Sunday night's service at Ebenezer Welsh Wesleyan Chapel, Carnarvon. Prior to the com- mencement of the sermon a low moan came from a pew near one end of the chapel, followed by a loud shriek and sounds as if someone were very ill. Nearly all the members of the congregation rose in their places. Many proceeded to the pew from whence the sounds emanated, and found a member of the congregation named W. Morgan. Almost simultaneously apparently several ladies fainted, and so seriously was onb affected that she had to be carried ill out of the chapel. The officiating minister, the Rev. EJward Jones, was considerably alarmed, but amid the din was beard. to anuounce that no danger was apprehended. A hymn was then given out and sung with a wonderful effect. Restoratives having been given the sick member, who had been attacked by an epileptic fit, he soon came round, and the service was afterwards, proceeded with. —The case of Ratcliffe v. Evans came up for further hearing on points of law, befcre Mr Com- missioner umpas, in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday. The plaintiff, Mr James Ratcliffe, is a boilermaker and engineer at Hawarden, and carries on the business in succession to his father. After his father's death the interest in the business was assigned to the plaintiff by the other brothers,, and it became his sole property. The defendant, Mr James K. Evans, was a publisher and printer at Holywell, and the proprietor and publisher of the County Herald. In August, 1890, a paragraph appeared in the defendant s paper, which referred I to the arrival of a steam boiler at the plaintiff's yard. ) The plaintiff claimed £1,000 damages. The defendant did not admit the allegation contained in the statement of claim, and said the words did not bear the defamatory meaning alleged. They also said the words were a fair and impartial com- ment upon a matter of interest to the public in the district in which the paper circulated that they were published bona fide and without malice, and that they were true in substance and fact. The case was heard before tho Chester Assises in Ju-y, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £ 120, but ieave to amead the statemoat of claim was given, and special damages wore n: w alleged. This queaiion now came on for argument. Mr F. MarshaH appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Bowea Rowla?da, Q C ior the defendant.—Mr Commis- sioner Bompaa gave judgment for the plaintiff for the sum found by the jury, viz £ 120.—Upon the application of Mr Bowen Rowlands, a stay of execution was granted for twenty-one days that the defendant might consider hia position with a view to an appeal,

I C0BBESP0flDENC £ r MARFORD ROAD. SIR,-There is much dissatisfaction with the condition of this road. Who is responsible for its supervision ? Perhaps the insertion of this query in the Advertiser will, as I hope, have the desired effect.—I am, &c., A TRAVELLER, A RECREATION GROUND WANTED. SIR,-Mr E. 8. Clark's allusion to this subject, at the concert on Monday night, was timely. A reoreation ground is badly needed. It is to be regretted we have not amongst our residents gentlemen of the type of Mr Clark, as if we had some practical stepa would be taken. By way of a beginning, I would auggest that the Town Council relieve the Recreation Ground Committee of its trying and onerous ditties by dissolving the com- mittee.—I am, Ac., REFORMER. NORTH WALES MINERS' FEDERATION I AND LLA.Y HALL COLLIERY. SIR,—I notice in the report of the monthly meeting of the North Wales Miners' Federation a reference in one of the speeches to myself and Llay Hall Colliery, which was received with cries of Shame It is stated that a deduction of 9 per cent. is made from the men. Permit me to correct this by pointing out that no deduction has been made. Every ounce sent up the pit is paid for and, in fact, 10 per cent. more coal is paid for than is gotten. The statement is prejudicial to these workst, or I would not have troubled to notice it, and I shall be obliged by your giving the same publicity to this as you have done to the report of the meeting I referred to.—I am, &c., EDWIN S. CLARK. I

MADEMOISELLE JANOTRA AT HAWAEDENc The inhabitants of Hawarden were singularlv privileged on Saturday by having an opportunity of hearing a pianoforte recital by Mdlle. Janntha, Couit Pianiste to the German Emperor, who was asiisted by vocal selections by the Hon. Mrs U. H. l^yttelton (Miss Santiey). We are sorry to say the audience was rather small, but it was in tha highest degree select, for in it was included the following party from the Castle :-Mr Gladstone, Mr and Mre Henry Gladstone, Mr Herbert Gladstone, Lady Cowell Stepney, Miss Alcy Stepney, Mr Arimitstead,. ot London, Mr Henry Holliday, the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, the Rev. H. and Mrs Drew. The follow- ing was the programme Sonata Moonlight" Beetkoven I Hong "Shepherd's Cradle Sons" SotMe<?M i(a) Berceuse" I ch rin I (b) ScheiZ > Chopiit SODga (a) The Bonny Curl M. White Songs (0)" Voices of !-prmg ?. Goring Thomas ((a) Arabesque "1 ?UMMMM I!b) ?%pitin?lida jtJeMf?fitiO.'nt ((?c? "C?riUon" }. ?tfer?Kftt Air. () had I JabaFa Lyre H?M?? ■a I (a) Polonaise "1 ?u?tMi-? f (0) V ttA" In t j (b) "Uavotte ?f?o?a It is impossible, if we wish to avoid even the suggestion of exaggeration, to describe the playing of Mdlle. Janotha. We have frequently heard pianists play who could-give an exact and correct reading of a piece of music, but on Saturday the difference between mere accurate dexterity and that supreme and un- stateable insight into the music which only the great players possess, was clearly made. Few of Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas are better known than the one which is fancifully called "The Moon.ight." No one who is at all conversant with high class music, and who has any soul at all, has failed to be impressed with the deeply tender adagio, with the more hopeful allegretto, or with the restless passion of the last movement. Even if it is indifferently played, the sonata ia delightful. What must it be then when played by one who combines with a perfect perception of its beauties, faultless execution ? Mdlle. Janotha gave such a reading of tLe sonata on Saturday, and in saying this we feel we cannot say more. It may perhaps be said for those who are studying the piece, that the second movement was taken rather slower than is usually the case. Chopin's mystic music was represented by two numbers; the Berceuse, a tender and dainty composition, and the Ssherzo, fuU of those little surprises in which the great com- poser revelled. It is hardly necessary to say that both pieces received all the attention which their exactingly delicate nature required. The three short piecis which came next were interesting, for they afforded examples of styles which were in the highest degree instructive. The Arabesque, which is well. known, was quite in contrast with the Spinnelieà (No. 34 of the Leider ohne Worte), and both were distinct from the Carillon,* which possesses little musical value. The last-named is a tuneful imitation of bells, but its execution requires much care. The pianiste shewed her wonderful touch to advantage, and as an encore repeated it. The Polonaise and the Gavotte were played with much spirit, and in response to the hearty applause which greeted her, she gave Thalberg's Home, sweet home," to the unrestricted delight of the audience. Mdlle. Janotha, who was most warmly applauded after each performance, played upon a Steinway Grand, which for sonorousness surpassed everything we have ever heard. The Hon. Mrs Lytte ton accompanied herself in all her songs, and was charming. The Handelian Air was greatly applauded, and she gave as an encore Robin Adair." The concert was given in the Gymnasium, and was in aid of the funds of the building. This erection is a fine room, light and lofty. It is well furnished with apparatus, and at the further end is a platform. We hope the pecuniary result of the recital will be large, but it is much to be regretted it was not more extensively made known. -———— ————

FATAL ACCIDENT AT. RHîDYMWYN. A shocking and fatal accident took place at Rhydymwyn Station, on the Mold and Denbigh line, on Saturday evening. 4. man named Thus. Jones, living at Ochrvfael, Rhosesmor, and work- ing at the Halkyn Mine, intended coming to Mold by the train leaving Rhydymwyn at 6 12. He came to the booking office, purchased hit ticket, and then stood chitting with the station- master and another. The porter, Ellis Wynne, rang the bell announcing the train, and then went to the booking office door, and requested all the Mold passengers to go on the other side. Jones, however, did not, but remained chatting, finally asking the stationmaster to go up to his house to tea, the following day. He and a man named Mr Makiuson then went out on the platform, and the latter, seeing the train to be quite near, waited till it had passed to the front portion of the Mold end of the piatform before he crossed. Jones, on the other hand, rushed across the platform, over the wooden crossing provided for the purpose. When Mr Makiuson crossed he said to the porter that he believed a man had just been killed. Wynne was surprised, as he had not Been anyone attempt to cross, and neither had anyone of the fifty or sixty passengers who were waiting, they having been too intent on watching the train to look out for anybody crossing. The bacK end of the Mold train stopped about 20 or 25 yards beyond the crossing, and Wynne was unable to see anything at first, but on turning his lamp between the" four. foot II and the platform, he saw a mass of something lying on the ground, which proved to be Thomas Jones, and quite dead, his head having been crushed to pieces. The porter ran, got an old sack, threw it over the remains, and then helped to despatch the train, all the passengers being much shocked at what had just occurred. The train having gone on, the stationmaster, Wynne, and a laborer on the line named Jones, who lived at a cottage about a quarter of a mile distant, then went to attend to the body, and to search for any marks which might indicate how the accident had occurred. They found the body lay exactly.seven- teen yards from the crossing, and from a deep mark in the ballast on the "five-foot" five yards from the crossing, and from the fact that the left side and shoulder of the deceased had been injured, it wa3 surmised he was struck by the buffer on that side while attempting to get to the up platfprm. alon g the level crossing, a blow which carried him to where the hollow was struck in the ballasts Thence he was hurled again by the engine and thrown between the engine and the platform, the "safeguard" in front of the engine coming in contact with the left side of his faca and shattering it into pieces, leaving the body a crashed mass against the platform wall. Wynne and the laborer, Jones, took the deceased and laid him in the waiting room. The poor man was vory well known in the district and generally liked, being of a chatty and cheerful disposition. He WAS married and had six children, and the difficulty was how to break the news to his family, which was done that night, and in the case of his eldestleaughter, a domestic servant at Mold, with some abruptness. He was forty-six years of age, and s,,me years ago had belonged to the Volunteers at Mold. The inquest was held on Monday afteEnoon before Mr W. Davies, corone;, when a verdict in accordance with the above fasts was returned..

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GREAT i I I LIBERAL MEETING AT (?FN< VIGOROUS SPEECH BY MR OSBCRNE [ MORGAN. I Oh Tuesday evening a very largely attended axd: enthusiastic meeting of the Liberals of Cefn and dis, trict was-held in the Cafn Board School. Mr John Thomas, C.C., Chirk, presided, and amongst those also present vyere-The Right Hon. G, Osborne Morgan, M.P., and Mrs Morgan, Mr Frank Edwards, Liberal candidate for Radnorshire Miss Edwards, Llan- gollen Mr Christmas Jones, Rev. A. J. Parry, Rev. R. T. Phillips Rev. E. Williams, Mr T. Sauvage, I Mr S. George, Mr and Mrs G. Garside, Mr D. Jones, Me E. Griffiths, Stores; Mr li. Bates, Bazaar; Mr, Mrp, and Miss Bowen, Mr P. Evarm, Llangollen Mr P. Morris, Mr J. Williams and Mriss Williams, Trtfynant; Mrs M. Jones, Mrs T. Evanp, Mr and Mrs W. Parry, Miss Lever. Miss Smithr Mr Doxey, Mr H. Davies, and Mr E. R. Evans. The CHAIUMAK said he had come from another neighbourhood solely to support, to encourage; and to welcome their right honorable friend and member, I%lt- Osborne-Morgan. (Loud cheerp.) He had also tome there to listen to local talent, and also to hear a gentleman he had never heard before, their friend Mr j Frank Edwards, their candidate for Radnorshire. (Loud cheers.) They were met together under the most favorable circumstances. (Hear, hear.) It had been said over and over again that one swallow did not make a summer, but he thought twenty-two swallows made a very good summer. (Laughter and cheers.) They had bad twenty.two consecutive bye- elections, and in each one the Liberal party had gaineci-(clieers)-itnti he wondered how any man could attempt to explain such results away. (Hear, hear.) By ths signs of the times—they knew what he meant, the chats with the people one met, and what one saw in the newspapers—everything looked very favorable for them in East Denbighshire. (Cheers.) They had to contend in that as well as in many other divisions, with very awkward opponents. He could scarcely say anything very favorable of them. (Laughter.) If they were Tories he would not mind them at all-(Iaugh- ter)—he did not mind talking to a decent Con* servative anywhere, but he alluded to those gentle- men called Unionists. (Laughter.) Lird Randolph Churchill called them crutches—(laughter)—but he (the chairman) had concocted a new name for them. He called them props and proppers-(Iaugher)-Aud they were Tory props. (Cheers.) He hoped the working men of Ctfll. together with the men of Black Park, would stick together, true to the old caure- (clieers)-and fight for their old friend who had represented them for twenty-three years. (Loud cheers.) This was an age of testimonials, and if any- one was worthy of a testimonial it was their hon. friend, Mr Osborne Mo.-gan—(cheers)—and he wished to give this hint to the Liberals of Cefn Mawr, Cefn Bychati, and all the other Cefns—(laughter)—that after the next election was over they should pay Mr Morgan's expenses. (Cheers.) It would only be a mite for each of them and some of them would give more than a mite. (Hear. hear.) He should like to see the expenses of every candidate paid, but let them take the lead in East Denbighshire. (Cheers.) After speaking in Welsh, the Chairman called upon Mr T. Sauvage, who proposed the following resolu- tion :—" That this meeting of the Cefn and district Liberals re-afiirins its unabated confidence in the Right Hon. George Osborne Morgan, and hereby pledges itself to use every legitimate means to return him to Parliament, with an overwhelming majority at the next election." (Loud cheer,) Mr Sauvage said that whether the election cama soon or late. the result in the Eastern division of Denbighshire would be the same. (Cheers ) It afforded him great pleasure to move that resolution, expressing confidence in their worthy member, who had represented them for ever twenty-three years to their entire satisfac- tion, and giving him an earnest that when the time came he would find the men of Cefn, together with the men of Rhos, Brymho, and other places, to return him to Parliament with an increasing majority. (Cheers.) It had been said, and said with a great amount of truth, by Prince Bismark, that Lord Salisbury was a man of wood painted to look like iron, and if that remark was ever true it was true at the present moment, when Lord Salisbury clung to officp, and was too much of a coward to face dissolution, and to let England be governed by the majority of its electors. (Hear. hear) The present Government had been weighed in the balance of British opinion and had been found wanting, and the day of reckon- ing was now near at hand. The Government had been wanting in common honesty, political wisdom, and true patriotism. (Hear, hear.) He did not want to fight the coming election on Home Rult, for that question had been fully settled by Wales, Ireland, and Scotland at the last election—(hear, hear,)—but they were going to fight the next election upon the question of the disestablishment and diseudowment of the English Church. (Cheers.) They meant to fight for their cause and they meant to have their de- mand. (Hear, hear.) Let no one misunderstand them. When they said disestablishment, they also meant disendewment. (Cheers.) Let the church of the rich support itself from the free-will offerings of the people, like the Nonconformists haJ done to their honor and glory. (Cheers.) '1'1'e time had come when thev demanded disestablishment and disendow- ment of the Church of England in Wales, not as a matter of justice, but as a matter of right. (Hear, hear.) They had three Questions to face at the next election, and these were Home Rule for Ireland, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, and the giving of an Eight Hours' day to miners by legal enactment. (Cheers.) Who was going to vote for those measures, Mr Morgan or his opponent ? (" Mr Morgan.") Who were they going to vote for ? (" Mr M >rgan and cheers.) That was the sum and substance of the whole thing, and therefore let them be up and doing. Let them return Mr Morgan to Parliament at the next election, not with a paltry majority, but with a majority which would make the Grand Old Man of Wales the Solicitor-General of England. (Loud cheers.) Mr SAMUEL GEORGB seconded the resolution, and gave a most effective and stirring address in Welsh. The resolution was enthusiastically carried, the audience rising and giving three cheers for Mr Morgan. Mr WM. JONES read some lines written by him, on the services Mr Morgan had rendered, which were well received. Mr MORGAN, in rising to acknowledge the resolu- tion, was received with loud and prolonged cheering. He thanked them most heartily for the very kind resolution which they had just passed, and ne must say that ib was the very best testimonial that he could possibly wish for. He wished to express the pleasure which it gave him to welcome on that platform their old friend and neighbour, Mr Frank Edwards. (Cheers.) He, as they knew, had set himself to storm what was considered rather a formidable Tory stronghold of Wales, but the walls of Jericho seemed to have fallen down before their Joshua, for the Tory member had announced that he was going to retire, and leave Mr Edwards in posses- sion of the field. (Cheers.) And now they said that he was going to be opposed by a Liberal Unionist. (Laughter.) He could not wish any friend of his a better fortune than to be opposed by a Liberal Unionist, for they might rest assured that the Liberal Unionists throughout the country, whatever might happen.to the Liberals or the Tories, would he smitten hip and thigh from Dan to Beer-heba at the next election, and would be ground to powder between tha upper millstone of Liberalism and the nether millstone of Conservatism. (Laughter and cheers ) He wished his friend, Mr Edwards, every success, and hoped soon to be able to call him bis hon. friend. (Cheers.) He was very glad that mention had been made of the Eight Hours Hill. because, as they knew, lie had made a distinct declaration of his approval of that Bill. (Cheers.) He did not suppose there was the slightest doubt about the fact that eight hours was quite long enough for any man to work in the bowels of the earth. Any man who had been down a mine, or had met a troop of colliers trudging home from their work, must feel that. The body and soul of a man were nut given to be worn out at the bottom of a coal pit. (Hear, hear.) He was strongly justified in his act-on by the evidence given by his friend, Mr Onions, the secretary of the South Wales and Monmouth Colliery Workmen's Federation, gi ven before the Labor Commission. Mr Onionti had said that there were two things which made him strongly support an Eight Hours' Bill. One was that the output had increased since the men had worked shorter hours, and the second -vas that the w >rk was safer when the men were not so much exhausted. (Ctieers.) Asked whether if it were proved that limitation to eight hours would increase the cost of production he would still insist upon eight hours. Mr Onions said he would. Regardless of cost?" Yes, tegardless of cost," lie replied, because I hold life is before cost." (Cheers.) Well, ofc coarse, if this could be done by agreement so much the better, but on that point he was told it COUld not b& done except by legal enactment, and he preferred to take the opinion of soma 20 000 or 30 000 practical miners to the opinion of the tir-t political economist in the world. (Hear. hear.) R-ferring to the ques- tion of royalties, he said it was a question which they all knew. or ought to know, was one of the greatest possible moment to workmen. Because amine, like a farm, could only produce a certain amount ot prout, and that profit had to be divided between the mine owner, who risked nothing, the lessee, who risked his capital, and the working meitj who risked their lives. It stood to reason that the more of the profits that went to the mine.owner, the less profits there would be to divide in wages amongst the men. (Hear, hear.) That brought him, to a meeting which was held at Wrexham, upon which he should like to say a few words. That meetiag was attended by twelve ladies and gentlemen, who had handles to their names —(laughter)—but where were the workiiigmen ? (Cheers.) Lord Penrhjai. the chairman of that meet. ing, might be a very- good judge of the points of a race -ho rae-(i aughter) -bQt thev could hardly say of him that he was in touch with the people of Wales. (Hear, hear.) Tken Sir Watkin Williams Wynn made a speech, which, as it had already successfully Kone through ten. or twelve eiiitions-(Iaughter)-titey had probably loog.since r--ad, marked, and inwardly digested. (Laughler.) His only new point was that the present (io^rnment ought to be kept in power because in fi -i.,ayeara they had passed 25-a.,Acd of Par* liament, but as most of these Acts were bad Acta, that would seem to constitute 250 reasons for turning them out. (jLoud cheers and laughter.) Sir Robert Cunl .ffe also spoke, and complained that he (Mr Morgan) wae too Send of using the word Tory. He had enjoyed the frisndobip of Sir Robert Cunliffe for so many years tkat he would not say aiv unkind thing about him, Md he had never done 1m. ?ut if men would in-, varbly act, vote, and s?k with the lories, why should they hot be called Tosiea 1 (Laughter.) But tha speech of the evan!'? w?s ?h? 8lÆech ot h? eo)lf?'uf, Mr K-?yor. (Laughter.) A wise man ¡ once said, "Oh th?t my enemy wouid ?nto a book," II and he thought he m)?b: venture to s?y in future^ "Oh that mine Rdv"?rywonU t:?kG a speech." (Laughter.) In an eloquent peroration, Mr Keayon called upon the constituency to turn him (the speaker) out, and elect Sir VI. Williams Wynn. (Laughter.) Why were they to do this ? Because Sir W. W. Wynn shared and represented their view-3 and aspirations- (laughter)—because by his vote and eloquence he would in the House oi Commons give pointed effeot to these views and aspirations? No, ihsv were to do all this because Sir Watkins Williams Wynn was the nephew of hie uucl, (Laughter.) Mr Kenyon's words were. "I say it here. and I see no reason to go back from my words, that it is as nearly as possible a nation,, scandal and a national disgrace that a man bearing- (' bosh ')-the respected and honored name that he bears-and far be it from him to say that it was not a leapected and honored narne-shouii Dot be the repre- sentative of this division of the county." To repeat I Mr Kenyon's words, he saw no reasot? to go back trom h? words, tha: 'he language us? by Mr Kenyon Wt8 the reate8t immlt ever offered ? a con- ?ituency ahtce the days of the rotten boroa?ha, (Loud r snd continu cheering. TMs was the first ti.e for nearly sixty orseventy years that it had been openly j suggested that sseat in Parliaisent was a privjlegl. to be strictly entailed upon the heirs male of a particular family. (JLaughter.) Tnis singsiar reason for a.3lecl-- ing Sir Watkin Williams Wyua reminded him of a st.)ry he (the speaker) once hewd* about another (1 I baronet, whom a constituency was urged to return to Parliament because be was the sen- of his father. (Laughter.) Someone made a long speech on the Hustings—it was in the old days-in which he dwelt I on the respected and honored name wiiich the can- didate bore and on the many virtues of hia father, when someone in the crowd called out, .y ou have I told us so much about his- pa, 'siiose you tell us something about his ma "-(great laughter) —and now he thought he might leave Mr Seuyon and proceed to other matters. (Laughter.) Referring to the Irish question. Mr Morgan eeid he I did not refer to Ireland at Rhos, because he thought he had talked the subject dry, but he had not changed his mind for one moment upon that eul ^st. (Cheers.) The Government said that there was lctltl crime in Ireland and that it was better governed, but this freedom from crime was owing to the fact thai for the first time the people of Irelaud had exchauged the night of despair for the dawn of hope. (Applause.) And after all the question wai not whether Ireland was better governed, but whether the people were m'lre contented with the Government. (Hear, hear.) And at what cost had that good government, as they called it, been obtained ? There were at present 30,000' soldiers and 12.000 policemen, who were soldiers in everything but name, in Ireland, and they had the beet authority for saying that not one man could bo removed from the country if they were wanted elsewhere. It grieved them surely to see such patriots as Mr Dillon and Mr O'Brien being com pelled to lie on a plank bed for doing what they were on!y doing that night at Cefn—(cheers)—md tor dragging injustice from its home and exposing it to the broad light of open day. It had been said that these peopla had not shown themselves fit to be trusted with self-government, but that was the old story. The examples of Canada and Australia showed that they could not tell whether a people was fitted for self-government or not until it had bem given them. (Cheers.) He maintained that the Irish had shown the greatest possible capacity lately f r self-government., No one admired the late Mr Parnell, before his fall, more than ha (Mr Morgan) did, and it was perfectly natural that the Irish should foltow such a man, but when they saw he was no longer a possible leader, they chouse their country. (Hear, hear.) The Liberal Unionists had been very active of late going about the country. Lord Hartington and Mr Chamberlain had been making speeches which covered sheet after sheet of tue London papers, but they fell as flat upon the country as a bottle of soda water which had been opened over night-(! auglittr)-and the whoie of them was not worth a single paragraph of Sir William Harcourt's admirable letter. (Applause.) The real answer to these speeches was the South Moulton election and "the bees," to use a simile which their Cliu;cli Defence friends were very fond of using, were returning to their own hive." (Applause.) The South Moulton election was not only a creat Liberal victory, not only a great Home Rule victory, but a great Liberationist victory, for Mr Lambert had not only advocated disestablishment in Wales, but also disestablishment in England, so that he was a man after the Bishop of Chester's own heart. (Laughter and cheers.) Mr Lambert's victory only bore out the conclusion to which, having addressed meetings in more taan half the English counties, he had come-that the Church of England was losing its hold upon the rural districts of England. If they were not quick, he thought Welsh disestablishment would be merged into English disestablishment. Could they wonder at this when they saw the attitude which clergymen were assuming upon the education question when they found them seeking to defraud Nonconformists d their rights under the Burials Act, and then boasting that the Act was a "dead letter"; and when they read the letter which the Bishop of Chester had lately addressed to a Wesleyan missionary? (Hear, hear.) The fact was the working men of Walts ami of England were no longer content to have his think- ing, even on religious questions, done for him, and the hard dogmatic theology of which the Bishop was so distinguished a professor ever tending towards ritualism, Romanism, and -stcerdolaliim-was not the food for him. (dear, hear.) Ha had been often asked when a dissolution would come. If it depended upon himself it should come to-morrow. (Applause.) If the Government could have their own way it would probably be put off to the year 1900 or 2000. (Laughter.) But the days of this dishonest and hypocritical Parliament were numbered the hand- writing was on the wall; and before many months were over it will have sunk into the limbo ot the pust, unwept, unhonored, and unsung." (Applause.) When the time came it would be for the men of Cefn to play their part in what he ventured to say wou d be the greatest contest that had been brought before the country. At the end of each registration struggle he always felt glad to hear that they had gained at Cefn, and he thought they were now prepared with the men of Rhos and Brymbo to carry the Liberal again t:) power. He was not as young as he was 23 years ago, but if he had grown old he had grown old in their service. (Loud and continued cheers) His only wish was to iierve in that great army of which Mr Gladstone was the leader-(loud cheer )—whose motto was Forward," and whose axiom was t ust in the people and he asked them. in conclusion, to aid him in the coming great struggle, and to enable them to hold up, if he might quote that grand old Scripture story, the bauds of their great political prophet until the sun went down upon the triumph of the greatest cause that ever taxed the Reniui of a statesman or stirred the heart of a nation. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Mr H. DAVIBS read some lines, referring to Mr Morgan, written by him. The Rev. A. J. PARRY proposed the follow. ing resolution :_f' That this meeting rejoices to hear that the burning question of disestablishment and dis- endowment in Wales has been recognised as one of the leading planks of the liberal platform." He congratulated Mr Morgan upon the hearty reception given to him by that meeting. (Applause.) He did not wish te speak disrespectful of the Church as a spiritual body. They did not attack its spiritual character, nor the opinions it held, but they simply attacked it upon this side-its union with the S ate. (Hear, hear.) Its union with the State meant that the Church was governed by the State, that its officers were appointed by the State, and that it was supported by the State. Disestablishment meant that it would govern itself and not be governed by the State, that its bishops would he turned out of the House of Lords, that the shackles that trammelled its action as a spiritual body would be removed. It would give the Church the honor of governing itself, and the pleasure and honor and joy of supporting itself. The Rev. R. T. PHILLIPS seconded the resolution, which was carried amidst cheers. Mr FRANK EDWARDS then delivered an eloquent address on current politics. He said the prospects of their party were never brighter than they were at present, l'hey had a great cause, the cause of the people, and they were bound to be victorious. (Ap- plause.) Mr Edwards then dealt with free education, the Irish question, and the disestablishment of the Church in Wales. He said that disestablishment they must have. and would have it. It had now come to the stage of action, and the Church party knew thi-, and had begun to try and put their house in order. There had been a great ecclesiastical house warming at Rhyl, and they had met together to save the establishment. He did not suppose thera had been such a notable gathering since the four and twenty tailors went out to kill a snail. (Laughter.) With regard to disestablishment, they did not want to ruin the Church, but they wanted to take it off the parish. (Laughter and cheers.) Mr PBTER WILLIAMS moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman for presiding, and to the speakers. Mr DOXEY seconded, and the resolution was carried with acclamation. The meeting terminated with three cheers for Mr anct Mrs Morgan, and for Mr Frank Edwards. ————— 6-

TOURING IN THE EAST. CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE BOSPHORUS. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) ISJCAILIA, Nov. 2ND. The approaches to a-Turki-h boat, such as ply upon the Golden Horn. or the Bosphorus are in- expressibly amusing. No one ever saw such a tumble down, yet picturesque, old bridge as that which connects the cities of Constantinople and Pera, each having half a million people. No one ever saw such a motley crowd of tatterdemalions as throng this bridge all day long. At both ends of the bridge is a row of Turks in white gowns, who take the toll.. Each side of the bridge is lined with beggars. Through this great crowd drive at full speed all sorts of creaking and dilapidated wagons drawn. by cattle and horses. The planks of the crazy bridge are badly worn, nail heads sticking up in. all directions, and between each plank a wide gap, through which you. see the river below. Half-way across is a still worse pier, to which the boat is tied. As soon aa tickets are purchased the passengers are driven iato a latticed coop, and there begins an elbowing and crowding such as is only seen in Turkey. At length you get upon the boat to find that it does not start for half-an-hsur. Little bundles of Turkish women with parasols so closely drawn that it is difficult to tell where the parasol ends and the woman begins, waddle in. and get behind a caavas curtain which fences off their corner of the boat. The Tark be. lieYe8 that the western nations expose the head in- stead of the feet. They copplain that when men visit they take off the hat instead of the shoes. If the ladies of the west are veiy modest around the heels and very liberal about tha neck, their Turkish sisters reverse this order of etiquette. A Turkish lady is very liberal with the public in the matter of her feet. If they are exceptionally large she is still more generous, dressing them with yarn stockings and wearing No 9 slippers, which, aa Thackeray remarked, go plaff-piaffing along." It must be a severe trial for the high-born beauties of Turkey, who in private adopt the latest Paris fashions, ta be compelled to appear in public with about as much grace as bags of feathers with a string tied round the middle. At last we were off, and soon passed one of the fairest visions that human eye ever rested upon- itately domes and graceful minarets, beginning at point, and extending for miles up the Golden Horn. Just above Pera is the stately and almost i?tcnninaMe facade of the Dolma Bagtache Palace, aud rising above it the magnificent park and gardens of Yildiz Kiosk, the residence of the present Sovereign, Abdal Hamid II. Opposite, upen the Asiatic side is another great white marble palace. Upon the water's edge, and just below the Imperial Harems is another large palace, with curtains tightly drawn, where it is whispered to yon that the Sultan's brother is treated as in- sane, but the peculiar tone and inflexion of the speaker leaves you to infer that he is a prisoner of State, and that a yooDer brother is usurping the fchrone. I About live miles from CoBstantinople are the de. caying bat exceedingly picturesque towns of M cammed, built in the 34rth century, at the siek-T of Constantinople. On the summit of the foitiSed' hill, shining in the bright sunlight, is Robeyto College, an American institution, where a faculty of aboat twenty teacheve are raising up a band ot stalwart young men, who have already done a gx-ot work in the rising State- of Bulgaria. In the o;%osite bay are the fanionesweet waters of Asia, wnere- every Friday lares nambers oi I Turkish wonMn, in charge of the Kaaucha, spend tbe afternoOD At the entrance to this- shallow stream, upon whose banks are the parbe, there is- another white xrarble Royal palace. Upon the European side of the Bdsphorus* is- a constant succestiron-of villages from Fera to the- Black Sea, with n-jmeroua summer residences. Here are the houses-of-all the Europsan Ambas. sadors at Constantinople. The wealthy Tacks too- r build their summer resorts~ along these banks. The Turkish house invariably has its closely lat- ticed window, which project over the first storey. As the day was warm many of the lattices were- thrown up, and beside them could easily be seett~- Turkish ladies. There has been much sentimental. writing about the mysteries of the harem as a- matter of fact the great majority of the Turks have but one wife, and these with each other, and even with foreign ladies are very sociable. The entrance to the Black Sea is a frowning line of grim; forts, with black guns looking out of every loop-' hole. This is far inferior to the European side. Why it is so, it is difficult to say. It seems to have' been devastated by great tires, and to be much abandoned. The buildings are poor and dilapid- ated, and the wharfs are rickety. But no one can even here resist the enchantment of the beautiful river, and as you slowly sail at sunset-for it takes nearly the whole day to accomplish the tour of the Bosphorus-up to Seraglio Point, you can again see outlined against a great mass of golden clouds the marvellous contour of the great city of the Caliphs. A visit to Constantinople would not be complete without making the circuit of the walls. We chose one of the brightest days for this excursion. These walls surround the city Uroper, which is situated within the triangle between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmora. We visited the Castle of the Seven Towers, whivh was built soon after the foundation of the city, and restored by Mahammed II. Here the Sultan imprisoned the foreign ambassadors, and had their viziers tortured and decipitatcd. It was to this castle that the Jannisaries would take and behead the Sultan they had dethroned. Only four of these towers now remain, the highest of which we ascended and gained a fina view of the city aud the old walls and towers, stretching as far as the gate of Adrianople. Near the castle is the Golden Gate, through which the victorious emperors made their triumphant entry into the city. We drove along the side where the cemeteries lie, and we noticed that the grave- stones and monuments denote the rank or office held by the dead,. being crowned with a priest's hat, the helmet of an officer, a fez, or a turban. On returning we had a distant view of "the sweet waters of Europe," a fashionable resort of the Turkish ladies on a Friday. On our way into the city we visited the Church of the Hold Chest, said to be the oldest edifice in Constantinople. It was built A D. 240, and the guide tells you that the garments of the Virgin Mary were kept there. There are many interesting mosaics illustrating scripture scenes, which showed that the curious little church was originally used for Christian worship. No Euglishman thinks of leaving Constantinople without visiting the English burial ground at Scutari, where lie the officers and men who fell in the Crimean war. Accordingly we Lailed across the Bosphorus on a bright aummer-like morning. passing near the great barracks, once the hospital which will be ever associated with the scene of the heroic labors of Florence Nightingale. The cemetery is beautifully situated on the banks of the Bosphorus, and is filled with flowering shrubs, fine cypresses, acacias, and evergreens. The graves of the 8,000 soldiers are at the north end of the cemetery, many of the tombs bearing the names of the honored men who lie beneath, with touching tributes from mothers, sisters, and friends. Most of the mounds however—each containing the remains of thirty or forty soldiers-have no names. A tall granite obelisk erected in the midst of the graves records in four languages that it was "eaiaed by Queen Victoria and her people." In England we have no idea of the effect of a cholera scare upon the inhabitants of the East. It was our intention to leave Constantinople for Beyrout, thence to climb 5,000 feet over Lebanon to Baalbee and Damascus and to pass through Galilee and Samaria into Judea and to Jerusalem. Alas, however, this was not to be. During our stay in the city of the Sultans, a terrible outbreak of cholera was announced from Damascus the death-rate increasing to fifty per day. What excitement was created in Constantinople. Travellers from east, west, north, and south had assembled in the city en route for the Holy Land. Newspapers were eagerly seized, telegrams were despatched in all directions seeking latest and fullest intelligence. One day came the report all the Syrian ports are in quarantine" the next came the news that the Austrian-Lloyd steumers refused to sail, and we feared we were to be left within the walls of Stamboul- Then came the tidings that the Palestinian party in advance of our own bad been put under ten days' quarantine off the coast of Syria, and each person had had to undergo the horrors of fumiga- tion. It appears that when approaching the coast of Palestine intelligence was received of the out- break of cholera, whereupon the first-class pas- sengers held a conference on board, and offered to pay all the expenses of 100 Arabs in the steerage to Alexandra and back in order to avert quarantine. The Arabs, exasperated at this suggestion, rushed on deck, and, seizing the captain, brandished great knives about his head, and threatened to take his life if they were not put into port. The terror- stricken captain and crew then sailed into harbor, with the result that all the cabin passengers were put into quarantine. We subsequently met these travellers, and heard the stories of their memorable experiences. On the morning of the day of our departure our conductor warned us to be ready at 4 p.m. to go on board the Austrian Lloyd steamer Saturno. eiiroute for Egypt. Of course, we were all flying about packing our queer purchases, and getting ready for another week's cruise upon the shining, yet treacherous, Mediterranean. We decided to spend, all the morning iu the bazaars. These cover nearly a square mile, and are for the most part roofed over. The light drifts through the oriental windows high above in a weird semi- opaque twilight upon a throng of turbans, fezes, bright-coloured girdles and queer gowns, and baggy breeches, mingled with innumerable porters., carrying grpat loads of boxes and bales, and donkeys buried in huge panniers. Here the children of Abraham do chit-fly congregate, address- ing each other in the Hebrew tongue. Here is a strong smell of oriental spicery that makes the air extremely agreeable to the nostrils. Not the least, of the attractions are the throngs of varied Mahometan women, with their awkward and curious figures and treacherous black eyes, bartering with the Hebrew merchants. Vast, piles of almost everything Oriental abound. Cotton cloth is sold by the pound, and scales are carried by all Borts of vendors, who weigh almost- everythmg, and cry out its price in piastres. The dusky air is vocal with all kinds of shrill cries by vendors of the greasy sweetmeats and sausages. Here is endless bargaining with the shopkeepers. Yonder goes half-a-dozen Englishmen with their white helmets and long pugarees. Now the bur. of trafficking is drowned by a complicated dogfight. The methods of trade are all eastern. Double the price expected is a.ked. Occasionally, an innocent abroad, like the writer, pays fair prices for a bracelet or a spoon, which Solomon or Jacob declares with his hand to his heart, contains no. thing but shekels of pure silver, but which upon removal from the dull light of his shop. proves to be pewtep. The dreadful pavements laid centuries ago and never repaired, the picturesque beggere,, and especially the stately mosques, with their great masses of silences and. distances, with DO music, painting, monuments, or ornaments save texts from the Koran; and everywhere graceful minairets, rising like slendes white lilies from the corrupt masses of humanity that lie and cheat at their feet; all these make a picture once seen that will never be forgotten, Lingering in the bazaars or orossing the wooden tumble-down bridges, or the breakneck pavements which swarm with all aorta of Asiatics in every direction i the lattioed windows above almost meeting from opposite sides of the streets without side walks, and only two feet wide, one constantly doubts the reality of his senses, and instead of Constantinople, imagines he is in one of the cities of the Arabian Nights of his boyhood.

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