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AL XKVVS.I
AL XKVVS. I l'be published re- cneml's office enabled us to com- report a statement of (he numbers the colony on the 30th of June, last. itales, 330,212; females, 187,154; an Mail. CtocK. — After years of mecbanicll mathematical tests, Mr. James White, market, has completed and has now in con- >n, a self-winding clock, which determines .n unfailing accuracy, continuing a constant | 'itself, never requiring to be wound up, and will perpetuate its movements so long as its com- t raft. exist. —Norwich Mercury. I Gibraltar Chronicle says that the Emperor of ico is endeavouring to lessen the horrors of war by latfng the practice of Morocco to that of civilised W. He has forbidden the slaughter of prtsoner" in battle, and in order to give effect to the p«>- and to save the lives of Spanish prisoners has fed the following plan :—Moorish Irregulars, being J all irregul«r in-the receipt of pay, are reqo<»ea ac- mg to the work done, and get a certain sur»»r very I of an enemy. The Emperor has now ettablutiea a Wed scale of bounties. paying only one ducat or M half-a-dolUr for a head and four dollars for a £ <>0er delivered alive. *>LA. MOHTHS.—This somewhat celebrated woman <!id<M in Brooklyn, living with aoma intimate friends, have stood by her in all ber varies fortunes. She "III to have really experienced a change of heart, and '"< that know her best allert ch,t recently she has lived It life of a devoted and sincere Christian. Lolo Montes, L>*ince her marriage with J.ieutenant Heald, in Eng- N, has claimed his nam*, and has always used it in Kin ess transactions, tola need neither play norpreach, t^H^ald enjoined in his will that his executor should b her an annuity of £ 300 as Jong as she lived. New Day Book. L^B^MBTMPOLITAN RAILWAY. — The contracts for P works of the Metropolitan Railway are accepted in the estimate, of the engineer. Mr. Brotherhood, I the West of England, has the western portion, and Jay the eastern, from Euston-square to Victoria. -tIt. The works are to be commenced soon after iVistmas, and the first of them will be junction lines [*n» the Great Western and Great Northern termini to State the removal of earth as the line extends itself Sards the City. A considerable portion of the land has **0 already secured, and the company will shortly call «»i. Corporation to elect tiieir Sectors and contri- ir!%ir portion o( the subscribed capital. It is also .1 .u CI.1D:;f>¡: thf: line to the --t;, of the intende.1 roarkei. The »ertns ■ f the <■< ntracts require the i-Unoa of the whole line within a yesr and nine Mtoe from the period of the order for commencement. ^REFEtlMBNTS AND APPOINTMENTS.— Rev. J. M. As- i to the Perpetual Curacy of Ding'a Notton,Worcester- t. Rev. H. C Blagrove, to the Curacy of Aldridge, ffordshire. How. A Boyd. to the Perpetual Curacy of •dington, Middlesex. Rev. J. Buckle, to the Vicar- of Stretton Grandsome, Herefordshire. Rev. E. W. ion, to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, Barn. Cheshire. Rev. H. S. Byrth, to the Curacy of Wton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Rev. J. Cholmley, !Ihe Rectory of Carleton Rode, Norfolk. Rev. T. S. ies, to the Curacy of Stowmarket, Suffolk. Rev. J. Cotter, to the Curacy of St. Stephen the-Martyr, ige Hill, Lancashire. Rev. G. R. Fielden, to the iracy of Bebington, Cheshire. Rev. A.- C. Gordon, to • Curacy of Plemonstall, Cheshire, Rev. G. C. Green, lhe Vicarage of Modbury, Devon. Rev. G. C. Harris, the Curacy of Tor-Mohum, and Cockington, Devon, lw. E. A. Hillyard, to the Curacy of Hoo, Suftolk. W. C. Hughes, to the Curacy of Blackburn, Lancashire. v. H. 1'. Leakey, to the Rectory of Bradfleld (1st rfiety), Norfolk. Rev. H. Mackenzie, to the Perpetual acy of St. Chad, Malpas, Cheshire. Rev. R. H. irgan, Perpetual Curate of Llanguicke, to the incum- boy of Bedwellty, value J6250. Patron, the Bishop of tndaff. Rev. S. F. B. Peppin, to a Vicarship-Choral the Cathedral Church of Wells. Rev. G. P. Quicke, the Rectory of Asbbritile, Somerset. Rev. W. H. *ichards, to the Curacy of St. John, Broughton, Lan- '•hire. Rev. J. Kou, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. t*ry, Haggerstone, London. Rev. R. J. Rowton, to is Curacy of St. James, Shaftesbury. Rev; W. S. free, to the Curacy of Morval, Cornwall, Rev. H. Otacer, to the Vicarage of Field Dalling, Norfolk. IV. L. Spencer, to the Vicarage of Renhold, Bedford, Ire. Rev. J. S. Utterton, Vicar of Farnbam, to th rehdeaconry of Surrey, dio. of Winchester. Rev. G. Wall, to the Perpetual Curacy of Burnside, West. Ireland. Ret. C. Whittle, to the Curacy of Beckermet, 'mberland. ).D. SCOTCH vsasus IsMH.—The best of everything ,) be had in London, but it nevertheless requires some Perience and knowledge to obtain it; and those who 8 not willing to explore the sources of supply and Hentty content with a moderate good article when a ter may be had for the seeking. These remaiks are tested in particular to the purchasers of Whisky, and if application is requested by those who are satisfied h Irish Whisky at present, and hft". not tried D.D. h Whisky. The necutiaritiea which recommend ilrit are its creamy and plpaOJaat flavour, great h. undeniable —u-u-omeness, and cheapness, in .risoo with other Whiskies hitherto known in jon. D.D. Whiskey has not been long introduced .\1 Engtand, though its fame is well established in Scot- |*tld; yet it is slready largely sold in the metropolis, and superseded Irish Whiskey in numerous p.ivate families. sample i8 supplied, to prove the soundness of these '••Harks, for twelve postage stamps. A case containing l*elve or s-2 gallon jar of the D D, Whiskey, Awarded for 40s. The same firm supplies the Royal &almojal, a very fine mild and mellow spirit, at Ids. per Gallon, and the Prince's Usquebaugh, a much-admired 14 delicious spirit, at 18.. per gallon. Two gallons and Pwards of the above sent to any part. Orders from the Nnti^ mutt contain a Post-office order, made psyable to tanalJ Duncan, 5, Buileigh-stieet, Strand, London, W.C. According to Liebig, the exliilirating properties of lea itpend OD the quantity of thfeine" it cootalos The ""n: early pickings, called by the Chinese Ie first crop 54" abound most in this esiential quality, as an ounce of ^is fine strong sort contains 10 grains of 4 tbeine'; the tutcmn crop" has bnt little, and is therefore deficient in "our. The English public desire to obtain choice tea, It are often disappointed, as they cannot distinguish the ''tfrom the yoong leaves, through a deceptive practice '• Chinese have of colouring tbem, to make all appear like; for this enables the Chinese to pass off the low riced brown leaves in lieu of the best. The great profit Nved from tbe practice occasions it to be generally "opted, but the celestials themselves never u»e tea so Moored. HORNIMAN & Co., London, knowing that -rling quality i. preferred before mere appearance, im Itt truly choice sorts without powdered colour on the jtface; this tea is "always good alike," and is obtained packets from HOBNIMAN'S AOBNTS ONLY: for LOCAL aee advertisement in this day's paper. In the Royal Laundry tbe GLENFIELD PATENT !*ABCH is tbe only Starch used, and is held in Such 111gb estimation by the general public that the de. ^*nd for it has increased, and is continuing* to in- "V" *ea»e with unprecedented rapidity. J\. • Maaufacturers of inferior articles, after making Mtortiye aitempta to introduce their tnaoufaelnres on Ikeir own merits, hating recently commenced to inti Me the Glenfield Patent Starch, in the form ol "XT ackage and colour of paper and label, the pro- ietors of that celebrated article, coostder it neces- Ty to inform all purchasers that every package of As genuine article has a liew of the original works, M the name B. WOTHBRSPOOH." printed apoo it. V Olenfield Patent Starch pleases all who use it, 'lad will please all who may yet use it better than **y other, and when you l»sk for it, see that you
ONE HUNDRED POU.nu-s^KHWAUD…
ONE HUNDRED POU.nu-s^KHWAUD O.V CONVICTION The leatful dangers to invalids from spuri°us BARRY'S invaluable Health.restoriug REVAL-hNiA AB1CA POOD led to an investigation, and, upon applica- nt 1854 for protection, the High Court of Chancery granted function restraining Alfred Hooper Nevill, and bis agents, ->er a penalty of £ 5000, from seiiia^ auy article resembling being a colourable imitation of _DU Barry's Uevaleuta Ithbles, of which we are the sole proprietors, sow therefore is Is to give notice, that the ttbo'e reward will be paid upon 'ction to any one giving information of any breach of the .Jea. An intelligent public requires no admonition to all shopkeepers who may attempt impositions. London, Regeot.street, 1838. BARRY DU BARRY & CQ. No MORE 81CKLY OR ILL-CONDITIONED HOR8E8 OR OTHER CATTLE. fcUtrfY'8 HORSE AND CATTLK IMPROVING FOOD ••stores the 3tamlna, vigour, enduranee and mus«i« of m, 80uditlonfll or apparently worn-out Horses, Cow., Bulloeks, halves. Sheep and pjg«. it causea an exira expense, as it Contains far more and better nourishment than its cost tould supply in corn or hay j hence ensures an actual sar- II. In a short time it improve the appearanee and value of **orses and cattle by 90 to 30 pet ceut. RAREY & Co., Sole •porters, 77, I'iecadilly, Quadrant, London. Packed in Tins *hout45 feeds, 6».; of about 90 feeds, lis.; in Casks of about • J of about 1,000 feeda, £ &, being about ljd. per n -d. Civ^ds forarardrd on receipt of Post Office Orders. The 100.. Casks free of carriage. Important caution, ion compounds offered by the iguorant and ..11 imitators will be proceeded against. "dare, W. J. Thomas; Bridgend, T. Jones i\ Cardiff, J. N. Flint, 18r Duke-street; F* street; R. Drane, Bute-street; J. B. Hopkins' ur titk' Merthyr Tydfil, John Loreridge a p. White; Newport, MOD., J. J. Jones, a, High-street •Memenu, Stamp °ffice ;F0ntyj)0°I( H. Hughes,T. Phillips, t *.«»Dttfe-vwitho*t Medicine of Indigestion (,dys- kl Flatulency, Acidity, Palpita- **e Heart, orptdity of the Liter, bilious Headaches, aess, Billousume, (i,,Rerai or Asthma, Consuapytio., Debility, Diarrhoea, ^U3"T taB'U|»fUos, Despondency, Spleen, &e. TreSeip^es'.0" ,Weiv* fre° b> Po#t' "THE NATURAL HEGENERATION OF THE DIGESTIVE, ORGANS," -'•s finfP *nd infallible means, which •re ,*«• ln °tb" »««Kes, aud does not inter- u* to the general reader. tfaiui Nephews, #9, Coruhill. .'1" ".u
£ P LTOME OF NEWS.
£ P LTOME OF NEWS. The Magee College, Derry, approachel completion. The foundhtion-stone of a new church has been laid at Ballymote, codnty Sligo Tenders bate been received for the erection of a Baptist Chapel, at Rathmines, Dublin. Gas ftorks are to be erected at Tuam. Vellullingar has beer lighted with pest-gas. A ipOnument is to be raised in Finglns Chuichyard, to the iate Dr. Lanigan, the arcbsaologist. The preliminaries for the proposed Me Clintock test imonialprogress satisfactorily. The number of the Rev. John Angel Jsmes's works issued by the Tract Society is no less than 2,930,950. The new Provincial Bank at Templemore is said to be an important building, and is complete. At a ball at the Brighton Pavalion the other day a number of ladies had their pockets picked of their purses. Garibaldi has bad an interview with the Dowager Empress of Russia, at Nice. The first contract for new courts at Dublin is nearly complete. The Irish meeting to sympathise with the Pope "tin continue. Sir Francis Goldsmid is prosecuting a canvass at Reading. The King's silver mine in Norway produced 1,105,000 francs worth of silver this year. Miss Watson, a Yorkshire vocalist, has lost her life, her dress, distended with crinoline, having caught fire. Her Majesty's steamship Duncan, 10J guns, was launched at Portsmouth on Tuesday. Madame Ducheytard, sister of Marshal Pelisaier, has just died in Paris, at the age of fifty-three. During 1857-8, 1,034 elephants were sent from Ran- goon to Calcutta for the army. The paper warehouses of Messrs. Rock, Wslbrook, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday molning. The greatest possible activity is visible in all parts of Portsmouth Dockyard. An earthquake has destroyed one half of the town of Copiapo, and killed great numbers of people. Lady Palmerston, who has recently been seriously in- disposed, is now much better. The gain to the Conservatives on the South Lancashire revision is 4,140 votes. Two batteries of Armstrong guns, twelve .pounders, have been despatched overland to China. A pomeg.anite tree, with 50 ripening fruit on it, is now growing in the open air at Broadlands, near London. Last week a sparrow was found sitting—the nest con- tained three eggs-at Pulteney-town, Caithness-shire. Al. Meyerbeer has left Paris for Berlin, to resume his duties as chapel-master to the King of Prussia. Attempts are being made in Scotland, under the aus. pices of the Highland Society, to put down hiring fairs, The whole of Sir Robert Peel's and Alderman Cope. land's race horses are advertised for disposal. New schools have been erected in Derry, close to the Catholic Church, Great James's.street, at a cost of £ 1,000. The National Company are erecting a new bank at Uungarvan, with commodious arrangements internally, and of Italian character externally. The corporation of Limerick has given permission to lay tramways. Belfast is applying for a private bill for the same purpose. The New York papers mention the capture of the slave ship Kmily, of New York, off Loango, on the West coast of Africa, by the United States ship Portsmouth. Rochdale enjoys the unenviable distinction s-f being the only town in Engtand which has declined to form a rifle corps. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of a bank-note for £1000, in full payment of a debt long due to the nation. The Times announces that a large sum will bejatked for in next year's estimates for the defence of the dock- yards. The neighbourhood of Kirton Lindsay, Lincolnshire, has been found to abound with iron ore, some yielding a very heavy per ctntage of iron. As many as eight hundred and fifty-one members have paid the admission fee to the London Rifle Brigade. All the other London Brigades are increasing in number. Garibaldi is still in the neighbourhood of Como, where, on the 3rd, he met with an accident while riding on a restive horse. A scheme has been set on foot for the construction of a monater hotel near the London Biidge Terminus, con- taining 250 sleeping rooms. Lola-Montes, it is said, has composed" a new drams, which she is about to bring out at one of the New York theatres. The Earl of Eglington has given orders for the distri. bution of 1,200 loado of coals to the poor of his lordship's estates. At some recent athletic sports at Oxford, Mr. H. Gillett, of Exeter College, threw a cricket ball the amazing distance of 116 yards 6 inches. Marshal Niel is to preside over the committee esta- blished at the Ministry of War for the defence of the coasts of France. Prince Alfred arrived at Corfu on the 5th inst. in the Euryalus, and bo joined Admiral Mundy's squadron, at anchor in the bay On Thursdsy Parliament was again further prorogued until the 24th of January, 1860, then to meet for the consideration of various divers important affairs." The first division of steam despatch vessels and gun- boats at Sheerness are fully equipped and ready for im- mediate service. Lord Brougham is about to issue his mathematical works in one volume, dedicated to the University, of Edinburgh. Mr. Wardroper, a solicitor of Petersfield, aged fifty charged on two indictments with forging promissory notes, has been sentenced to ten years penal servitude. The Bey of Tunis has granted 120,000f. to build a resi- dence for the French Consul near the gates of the town, not far from the ruins of Carthage. Sir Cresswell Cresswell is said -to bless his stars three times a day that he is a bachelor ever since he has entered on the divorce business. The directors of the Midland Railway Company have taken steps for securing, as speedily as possible, a metro- politan station. The introduction of advertising pillars, called "illumi- nated indicators." has been successfully resisted by the patlsb of St. Michael's, Cornhill. It is stated that Mr. C. H. Spurgeon made, about three weeks ago, a formal recantation of the extreme Calvinistic tenets which he had been hitherto preaching. It has been determined by the Government to erect an extensive fort on the centre of the breakwater at Ply- mouth. On a second conviction within the year, Messrs. Raw- linson, Burnley, have been fined A:2 in each of 50 cases for having young persons at work after six o'clock. The penalties and costs amounted to E130 6s. The Belfast journals say that small-pox is very much on the increase in that town. Many respectable persons, who had been innoculated in their childhood, have been attacked with it. It will not be out of season to remind publicans and others, that all lotteries, raffles, &c., are illegal, with the exception of Art Unions, which enjoy a special exemp- tion. A chemist has found an average of 2*55 grains of arsenic, qnite enough to destroy life, in each of the papier moufier By panels. Hence they might lead to accidental poison- ing of children. The sketches and collections of the late Mr. Leslie- that admirable painter of the English and of the American school of art-will pass next year under the hammer of Mr. Foster. A considerable number of the soldiers who were dis- charged in India, upon their refusal to be transferred from the Company's to the Queen's service, have re-enlisted since their arrival in England. It is said that Madame Goldsmidt intends to appro- priate no small portion of her fortune to the endowment of an asylnm for decayed singers, upon the principle of the Dramatic College. The honorary degree of L.L.D. was on Wednesday conferred upon Captain M'Clintock, the distinguished Arctic navigator, and Mr. Whiteside, M.P., by the University of Dublin. Peter Dwyer, a teacher of writing, at Newcastle-upon Tyne. has been fined JES for kissing and using improper language to Catherina W right, a married lady, who was receiving instructions from him in the art of writing. A bad report is given of Lord Clyde's health. His last letters home were not written by his own hand, but by that of his friend, aide-de camp, and secretary Colonel Anthony Sterling. A m«n w"8 recently fined for cheating himself. He was charged with using a steelyard that was incorrect. It turned out that the inaccuracy of the steelyard de- frauded the man himself. The sale of sausages at the various butchers' in the eastern parts of London has almost ceased. The con- sequence has been that sausuge meat at Newgate and Leadenhall market has been left to perish, through the great interruption in the demand. Twolada calling themselves natives of Waterford, have been apprehended at Waterford for singing seditious bal- lads, which, in anticipation of the advent of the Emperor Napoleon, called upon all true sons of Erin" to arm and follow •• the brave Dr. Cahill." A horrible ease of infanticide b*« been tried in France, in which the mother of a young lady destroyed the new born iuf<*nt of her daughter by consuming its body in a fire. The parties were living in fitst-rate style and kept their carriage. The daughter has been acquitted, and the mother sentenced to 20 yeara' hard labour. The British government lately sent a traction locomo- tive engine to the Viceroy of Egypt. After receiving it, Said Pacha ordered the engineer to get up steam, and had the half-dozen carriages of the personages attending aud his own attached to it; then requesting them to ge* into their carriages, he started off with them-the locomotive at full speed-to the great dismay of the unwillin g pas- sengers. They thus passed through the principal streets of Cairo to the great amazement of its Arab inhabitants, a1aJ'hfou8h the Esbequeh, or Grand-place, on the >*ajr to the Palace of Ktzer-«1-Nil.
- CASE OF THE REV. MR. BONWELL
CASE OF THE REV. MR. BONWELL FURTHER INQUIRY BY DIRECTION OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON. On Thursday sennight the commission directed by the Bishop of London, to enquire into the allegations against the Rev. Mr. Bonwell, was opened at Doctor's Commons. The commissioners present were Dr. Travers Twiss, Chancellor of the Diocese; Archdeacon Hale, the Rev. Canon Dale, Vicar of St. Pancras; the Rev. W. G. Humphrey, B.D., Vicar of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; and the Rev. J. E. Kemp, Vicar of St. James', Westminster. Mr. Coleridge and Mr. H..Bulter appeared on the part of the Bishop of London. The Bishop of London's commission was then read. It set out that as a scandal and evil report existed against the Rev. Mr. BonweP, Incumbent of St. Phillip'* Church, Stepney, to the effect that he had a temporary sleeping apartment in the school attached to Stepney Church, and that he had harboured an unmarried female who was in August last delivered of a male child, of which he was the reputed father; it was, therefore, desirable that such scandal should be fully inquired into. Mr. Coleridge then proceeded to open the proceedings, and gave a brief outline of the charges which he should be prepared to prove in evidence. He said the Rev. Mr. Bonwell, incumbent of St. Phillip's Church, Stepney, was married, and his wife kept a ladies' seminary at 33, Thornhill-crescent, Islington. Mr. Bonwell had a room temporarily fitted up in a building used as a schoolhouse near St. Phillip's Church, and he was frequently to be met with there. The intimacy with Miss Yorath com- menced when she was on a visit to Miss Aimes, at Margate. The conduct of Mr. Bonwell was of a very marked description. He was seen to kisa her, and it was afterwards given out by Mr. Bonwell that he waa a widower, and he shortly afterwards laid siege to Miss Yorath's affections, to which it must be remarked she was nothing loth. Things went on in this way for some time, when Mr. Bonwell returned to London. He (Mr. Coleridge was in possession of a letter from Miss Yorath to Miss Aimes, in which she gave an account of her visit to London, and the conduct of Mr. Bonwell. [The letter was then read. It set out the manner in which Miss Yorath waa visiting theatres with Mr. Bonwell, and that while she was in London she was stopping with a Mrs. Jones, a lady living at St. John's Wood.] The statement that Miss Yorath was sleeping with Mrs. Jones he should be able to prove was not true. In May, 1859, Miss Yorath again visited Mias Aimea at Margate, when she found Miss Yorath was unwell. She quitted the house, but told Miss Aimes who the father of her child was, and that he well knew her situation. At Newport, the place of residence of Miss Yorath's family, it became whispered that Mr. Bonwell was not a single man, but on the con- trary married. Mr. Lewis Yorath, the brother of the hdy, wrote to him, telling him of the rumour, but Mr. Bonwell wrote to him a letter stating it was a base fabri- cation. The correspondence between them continued, in which Mr. Bonwell strongly denied all the rumours of his being married, and informed Mr. Yorath that he might go to the Bishop of London, but that if he had any filial affection he would bitterly repent such a step. Mr. Bon- well subsequently visited Newport where he thought he should be hble to prove that Mr. Boowell was in the habit of going into Miss Yorath's sleeping apartment. In consequence of certain circumstances Mr. Bonwell went to the Bishop of London's residence in August, and did not deny the impropriety of passing as an unmarried man and making love to the lady. The Bishop wrote on the 11 th, asking if he felt disposed to have an Inquiry into the charges against him. No answer was returned to the communication. The Bishop's secretary then wrote, and a reply came from Mr. Bonwell. On the 25th the Bishop wrote to Mr. Bonwell, reprimanding him and on the 27th his lordship got a letter making more serious charges against the rev. gentleman. Shortly after this a gentleman took lodgings at Islington, in the house of a Mrs. Glennie for a lady, and gave a card, on which was the name of Bonwell. The lady came, and Mrs. Glennie would be called before the court, and she would state that the linen of the lady was marked" E. Yorath." Thii lsdy passed as Mrs. Harvey, and the Rev. Mr. Bonwell was in the habit of constantly visiting her, but he did not sleep there. On one occasion Miss Yorath's mother arrived from Newport, and there recog. nised Mrs. Haivey as her daughter El zabeth. Miss Yorath was far advanced in pregnancy, and in a short time afterwards a nurse was procured for the lady, and a Mrs. Corney was present at the delivery of a male child at the echool-house in Stepney. Dr. Godfrey attended tne lady during the time she was unwell. The child died and was buried at llford Cemeteiy in a coilin in which was another body. The Rev. Mr. Bonwell made all the &a arrangements for the funeral, and paid all the charges. In consequence of certain statements Mr. Humphrey, the coroner, procured the disinterment of the body, and an inquest was held, and a verdict censuring the conduct of Mr. Bonwell was agreed to. Miss Yorath was not examined at that inquisition, and it was to be regretted that she was not in attendance that day, as all endeavours to discover her residence had failed. Her mother did not know where she was now residing; but that the Rev. Mr. Bonwell knew her retreat was»evl<Jent from • this fact. On the 6th of October an advertisement appeared in the t. the following effect Tu E. Y. Write me a few lines to say that you are well. I am at the same place, Always the same, unchanged—James." This advertisement, he should be able to prove, was in the handwriting of Mr. Bonwell. To strengthen that a second letter was written to the Timts. complaining that the advertisement had been incorrectly published, viz., that the letter "Y" should not have been published. This letter was also in the handwriting of Mr. Bonwell. The charges against Mr. Bonwell were three. They charged him with committing adultery-tvitli being the father of the child-and that he had conducted himself in such a manner at the birth and burial of the child as to bring scandal on the Church. The learned gentleman concluded his speech by calling upon Mr. Bonwell to dis. prove the charges against him, but in the event of the charges being substantiated the severest punishment might be inflicted. Miss Georgiana Aimes: I am granddaughter to Major Watts. 1 have been acquainted with Miss Yorath for two years. I know Mr. and Mrs. Robinson. In the month of October I went to tea there. Mr. Bonwell and a gentleman named Atkins \vere there. Miss Yorath was there. He paid her very marked attention. I saw him afterwards walking with her. Mr. Bonwell subse- quently visited my grandfather as the accepted lover of inlies Yorath. I did not know that he described himself as a widower, but it was thought he was. I never heard him talk of marriage to her, but he once said to me, What a nice bridesmaid you would make." I have noticed them sitting on the sofa. He has bad his arms round her waist. Miss Yorath left my grandfather's house in December, to go to her own home. On the 8th of June I saw Miss Yorath, and perceived that she was in a state of pregnancy. I said that I thought Bouwell was a wretch, and he ought to marry her. Cross-extmined by Mr. Sorrell: I have not seen her since; I don't know where she i. noov. Mr. Bonwell never left her the whole of ,the evening, and addressed the whole of his conversation to her. This I call marked attention. Mr. Bonwell was always looked upon as a widower. He spoke of his little boy to Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Anu Robinson: I reside at Margate, with my husband. On the 6th of September Mr. Bonwell came to dine with us. I knew Miss Aimes and Miss Yorath. I invited them to tea. This was the first meeting of Miss Yorath and Mr. Bonwell. He appeared very at. tentive to Miss Yorath. He seemed to admire her very much. In about a fortnight after this they visited our house as accepted lovers. Mr. Bonwell represented him- self to me as a widower. I did not know he was a married man. If I had known him a married man, I should consider his conduct most disgraceful. He preached a sermon at Margate on Sunday—it was on Charity and Love." Mr. Lewis Win. Yorath I am A surgeon in practice at Newport Monmouth. My father was a clergyman of the Church at England; he died in 1852, leaving a large family. Elizabeth Yorath is my eldest sister; she had never been married. In December, 1858, my mother was living with me. At the end of list year Mr. Boo- ell came to Newport and remained about a week. At that time I had a servant named Sarah Jones. I pre- viously had heard from my sister that she was engaged to Mr.. Bonwell. When Mr. Bonwell came he told me be was engaged to my sister. He told me he was incum- bent of St. Philip's, Stepney, a ftllow of Brazenose Col- lege, and a widower, and referred to the clergy list that what he said was correct, and then he was received as the accepted lover of my sister. After that he used to come down about once a month, until it was broken off in June. My sister and Mr. Bonwell used to sit up alone at night. He used to smoke his pipe after the family had gone to bed. I gave him up my bedroom. It is on the same floor as the dining-room. I once remonstrated with Mr. Bonwell upon his sitting up so late, and in- sisted on his going to bed earlier. He only laughed, and said they were talking about love. He gave me a description of his wife's death. After he bad visited us some time the marriage was fixed to come off in June or July, My sister prepared her welding clothes. He said his good friend the Bishop of Oxford would perform the ceremony. He went iu May, and then I heard reports that he was a married man. I wrote to hits ia conse- quence, asking him to contradict the report, or else to produce the certificate of the burial of his first wife. He told me his flist wife's name was Albertina. I received the letters you read in your opening speech, tflling me to go to the Bishop. Mr. Bonwell told me he came from Yorkshire I recollect my sister being with Miss Aimes in September. I wrote to her to come, but I received a letter telling me she was going to remain in London. I recollect in December, Mr. Bonwell told me be had taken my sister to the school at which his little boy was, and had asked him how he should like her for a mother, and the child said, 44 Very we.l." I do not know at the pre. sent where my sister iI. She left my mother's house about a mouth ago, without leaving auy trace of her whereabouts. Cross-examined: I have sat up joking with Mr. Bon- well rather late. We have had whiskey together. I call late between twelve and one o'clock, but my sister has remained up until between two and three. My sister was generally later going to bed when Mr. BonweU WM { >. ft there. Mr. Bon-well fixed the day of marriage himself. Miss Evans has heard him also state the same thing. In May he fixed the wedding. He came purposely to tell me, and gave directions for the ceremony. He was con- stantly talking how soon he would marry my sister. On one occasion he offered to bet me €10 that he would marry my sister the next day. This was before the wed- ding was fixed for June or July. I said nothing to in- ducelhim to make the statement, but he came in from a long walk, and said he had that moment left the Chan- cellor, and that the wedding was to be fixed the next morning. This was before we had the whisky. He told me in the evening that my sister would not marry so hastily, as she was not prepared to marry next morning. By Mr. Coleridge: There is not the slightest truth io the imputation that I was in the bablt of getting drunk. My sister, when the left about a month ago, had but .£3 in her possession. The Rev. Hugh Williams: I am a clergyman of the Church of Epgland, andC hancellor of the diocese of Llan- daff. I knew the late Mr. Yorath as a neighbouring clergy- man. I recollect on the 15th of February this year, Mrs. Yorath and ber daughter coming to tea with me. Mr. Bon. well did not come that evening. Mrs. Yorath came to tell Mrp. Williams of her daughter's intended marriage to Mr. Boowell, a clergyman in London. On the 21st I called at Mrs. Yorath*s to see Mr. Bonwell, but he was out. He came however on the 29th of March, with Mrs. and Mua Yorath, and there I was formally introduced to him. He spent that evening with U'. He behaved as a gentleman and clergyman should do. I understood they were about to be married. On the 15th of May be also visited my house. He did not tell me privately that he wa. a widower, but Mrs. Williams, in his presence, told me he was coming to me to get his mar- riage license. She also told me, in his preseoce, that he said his first wife's name was Bird, and a conection of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. Cros*-examined Whatever was said by Mrs. Williams he must have beard, as he smiled assent. I think Mrs. Wi liams said the marriage was to be in June, and be eaid, Yes. soon," and the. 26th of June was fixed as the day. I was asked if I would marry them. I laid" Yes." By Mr. Coleridge: I am sure it was fixed that I was to marry them, but the subject was not discussed further. A copy of the marriage certificate of Mr. Bonwell with Albertina Sophia Bird, at Bradford, was then put in. Sarah Jones, servant at the Angel lun, Newport, said I was engaged formerly as servant to Mrs. Yorath. I have frequently seen Mr. Bonwell there. I have seen Miss Yorath sitting on Mr. Bonwell's knee. They used to sit up very late. I have seen them sitting oo the sofa as lovers usually do. -,I told Mrs. Williams about two months ago what I knew of the matter. I did not think it necessary, when I saw Miss Yorath sitting on Mr. Bonwell's knee with her arm round his neck, to tell her mother, as I knew they were to be married. Mr. Yorath and Mr. Bonwell used to joke and drink of an evening. It was on one of these occa- sions that 1 went into the room, that I heard of the mar- riage. I know that she wasmaking some Ii nen clothing, which she paid was for her wedding. I never saw her making a wedding-drtss. Mrs. Mary Ann Yorath: I am mother to Elizabeth Yoratb. I iecollect meeting Mr. Bonwell in London, and I reproached him with his conduct to my daughter. He said he had falles in love with her, and he could not help it, if he was hung the next moment. .%fro. Alice Gleanie: I li,,e at Bill's-pond-roid. In June last a lady calling herself Mrs. Harvey, looked at same apart- ments I had to let. She engaged the room-, and I naked her for a reference, and she gave me one—" The Rev. Jas. Boo, well, Teignmouth-terrace, Stepney." In the evening of the day a cab containing a lady and gentleman arrived. It was on Saturday, He remained but a short time. Before he went he said to the lady, You will be at Church to-mor- row, and then you wi l dine with us." I sent tbe linen be- longing to the lady to wash. Some of it was marked E. Yorath." The lady lodged with me seven weeks, but the last two weeks of that time she came in but once. She used to remain out frequently. She always told me not to expect her after 10 o'clock io the evenio?. By Dr. Twiss The gentleman called the lady Lizzy." I noticed directly she came into my house she was in the family way. I once asked if the gentleman's name was Bon- well. and the said, No, his name is Westmeath. He has fre- quently, however, been taken for that gentleman." I recog- nised him to be Mr. Bonwell from a miniature she wore of a mlln in clerical robes- Mrs. Hudson: I am a pew opener of St. Philip's, Step- ney. In December I recollect on one occasion a lady coming to the church, and after doing so, at the end of the sermon Mi. Bonwell said, Will you ask that lady to come into the vestry to me." 1 did so. Last August the same lady came itud asked for the rector's pew. I showed it to her* and after that she used to walk io herself. On the 20th of August I noticed a little girl ringing at the school house doot. I went out and told her it was no good knocking, <s there was nobody there. She said her mother was there, tursing the minister's wife. After the inqueet Mr. Bonwttt accused me of creating the reports against him. He Paid the nurse was sttendtng upon a poor woman who had fallen down and broken her leg. Mrs. Couler said—In August last I was out for to attend a lady iu labour. Mr. Bonw«|| wai down stairs, and D> God trey and myself were with tbe lady. A male child was born, and the mother and infant remaioed at the school house for 12 day*. The lady, myself, and baby wvnt in a cab to a hote). Mr. Bouweil told the lady where to go. I remained it attendance until the baby died. I never heard Mr. Honwln talk about the father of the child. Emma Mitchell, a servant at the Sussex Hotel, said-In August a gentleman took an apartment for a lady, her nurse and baby. The Rev. Mr. Bonwell paid the hotel account. Tbe child tied 00 the Saturday morning. Mr. Ayrts, undertaker, of Red Cross-street, said-hir. Bouwell cCled upon me, and asked me to bury a little child at my ownconvenience. Dr. Godfrey repeated the evidence respecting the dan- gerous tiluitioD he found Miss Yorath in when he was called in.. M.r Buller: In the course of convetsation, did Mr. Bon. well tell you who was the father of the child? Dr. Godtey I decline to answer the question. I claim the privilege of a professional man. Dr. Twi*: Have you promised to Mr. Bonwell not to divulge whst he told you 1 Witness: 1 have. Mr. Bulltr: That answers my question. Mr. Streft, of the Times" newspaper., then produced the nnnusoipts and letters relating to the advertisement in tbat jourial, wt^en The inqnity was adjourned until Friday at 11 o'clock. On Friday, the first witness called was Mr. Joseph Nethercliffe, a "facsimilist," and an expert in baud writing, w tio said-I have been many years engaged in the comparison of handwritings. I have compared the MSS. of the advertisement in the Times, and the letter of complaint written to the Times office, with four letters said to have been written by Mr. Bonwell, and I find that they are in the saim handwriting. The advertisement is in the natural hand, bit the letter is slightly feigned. Mr. Collis, at officer of the ecclesiastical court, proved that he had wittin a few days seen Mrs. Bonwell, the wife of the accused, tt her residence, 33, Tbornhill-crescent. This evidencecompleted the case for the prosecution. Mr. Best then addressed the Court on behalf of Mr. Boowell.-He extended that the moot serious part of the charge, the comikission of adultery within the diocess, was entirely unsuppoited by the evidence. The proceedings at Margate and Newport must entirely be put out of sight, for the Commissioner were precluded by the terms of their commission and ty the statute from going into anything which bad taken ttlace out of the diocess. The learned counsel, in supportof this view, quoted the case of" Homer v. Jones," in which Sir H.J. Fust had decided that Com- misaioners under the Church Discipline Act must confine their inquiry to act) done within the diocess, so that Com- missioners appoints] by the Bishop of Worcester could not inquire into acts coasted within the diocess of Lichfield. If therefore, the Coiinlosionere, resting on the evidence of what took place at Margate and Newport, should report to the Bishop that there were prima fane grounds for further proceedings igainst Mr. Bouwell for the commis- sion of adultery, theywould be misleading him, since all that evidence ifould have to be excluded ia any suit which might hereafter be institutet. There was not the slightest pat- ticle of evidence rejecting the commission of adultery within this diocess. 'i'be only thing that bore any resem- blance to it was the leter of Miss Yorath to Miss Aimes. which in itself was not legal evidence against Mr. Honwell, and, even if it were legal, the idle tittle-tattle of one woman to another wis not exactly the sort of evidence which ought to be reliai on when a clergyman's character and position were at stMce. Not the slightest legal or satis- factory proof had been adduced to show that Miss Yorath spent any time in Londio with Mr. Bonwell in the month of December last. Andwith regard to her subsequent stay in London in the followhg summer, there was nothing to show that Mr. Bonwell ether visited her at Mrs. Glennie's -10 fact, he was ooly thire once,—or that she visited him at the-school-room. Therefore the charge of adulterous intercourse within the diicess entirely failed. With regard to the charge of having harboured Miss Yorath in the school-room, while in a state of pregnancy, and having visited her there, there WI8 Dot a tittle of evidence of any sort to prove it: and though it would be idle to deny that a birth of a child bad taken place in the school-room, that might be easily explaioei on the supposition tbllt the mother wfcs taken suddenlyin labour, aud it being impos- sible to remove her she was carried to Mr. Bonwell's apartment, and there of necessity confined. Dr. God- frefe evidence was to th, effect tbat the case was a very difficult one, and that it would have been dangerous to remove ber. Such an incident might happen to any one, and if Mr. Bonwell hd refused to let her remain, but had turned her ou into the street, a much greater outcry would bavt been raised against him. As to Mr. Bonwell's conjexion with the burial, he had been entirely exoneratedfrom the scandalous circum- stances attending that affair b, the testimony of the under- taker. The packing of the cliid into a coffin with another body waa entirely the act of Ite sordid undertaker, in order to save the fees which he wouli have to pay, and to defray which he had money given hm. The great discrepancy between the highly.coloured owning of Mr. Coleridge and the lame facts adduced in evi(ance must strike every one, and Mr. Coleridge hlmseU a. rftch as confessed it when he resorted to the state device of coring Mr. Bonwell to appear in the box in oider that he mqrht make good the bolea in his own case by cross-examining him. He very much doubted, however, whether Mi Bonwell would be a legal witoess at this stage, and certaiDy the proper time for him to come into the box would bewbeD further proceedings were instituted, If the Commissioiers should report in tavor of them. He contended that M. Bonwell had been the victim of an outcry got up againsi him chiefly by the cheap pte!os. which had so startled th public mind, that the Bishop, in justice to himself and t. Mr. Bonwell, had no op tion but to issue this commission. He had every confidence however that ou a cijam review of lie facts laid before them, the Commissioners would come to be conclusion that there was no ground for further proceeding, and would so report. The Commissioners then retiree to consult on their re- port. On their return to court, ater an absence of more than an hour, Dr. Twill delivered judgment. The judgment affirms that thereig prioafacie evidence that the Rev. J. Bonwell was the ather ot the child, and upon all points for further proceeding report to be made to tbetf London, j
YSTRADGUNLAIS.—THE NEW CHURCH…
YSTRADGUNLAIS.—THE NEW CHURCH AND THE PARSON, TO THE EDITOR OF THE CARDIFF AND MEBTHYB GUARDIAN Sin,— My attention has been called by different per- sons, some of whom reside in this parish, and by others who live in distant neighbourhoods, to a communication under the above title, inserted in a Welsh newspaper, called 44 Baner ac Amserau Cymru," for Dec. 7th, 1859. This communication occupies a whole column of the newspaper in question, and is a pretended report of the proceedings which took place at a vestry, held in this parish, on the 1st day of this month, and is signed by a person who assumes the name of 41 Gohebydd." As there are in this report several things which are perfectly in- consistent with truth, and of a tendency to disparage my personal character in tLe estimation of all who know me, I trust you will be kindly pleased to favour me with some little space in your widely-circulated paper, for the pur- pose of publicly shewing how facts have been wilfully exaggerated and distorted by one, who, in the capacity of a reporter to the public press, ought to be above lending himself to the publication of such a one-sided, incorrect, and party spirit report. The whole tenor of the report appears to assume that the erection of the New Church would be of some great gain and personal advantage to me, and the manner in which he saddles the whole proceeding and its conse- quences upon my shoulders, is to my mind a most unwarrantable liberty taken with the facts of the case. As far as I myself am concerned, I have of course, but a brief passing temporal interest in the parish-in a very little time I, and all those related to me, will, in all pro- bability have left it altogether; whereas the erection of the New Church will be of a lasting and permanent ad- vantage to the parish for generations yet unborn. Under these circumstances I cannot but think that the ratepayers in their parochial capacity exercised a most wise and sound discretion in taking the matter under consideration in a public vestry of the parish on the 1st of December instant; and here 1 distinctly and emphatically beg to s'ate that, although the proceeding met with my warmest approbation, the vestry in question was convened at the special and earnest request of some of the most respect- able and influential farmers and ratepayers in the parish. I had called upon several of them for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions towards the erection of the New Church. Some of them had promised to subscribe liberally in the matter; but the building being that of a church, erected for the benefit of the whole parish, it was consi- dered that the parish generally should be made to contri- bute towards its erection, and when it was further ascertained that the Public Works Loan Commissioners were prepared to advance money on the security of the rates, to be made payable back in 20 years at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. I was requested and urged to take the necessary steps in the matter, for the purpose of authorizing the Churchwardens and Overseers to apply for £1,000, being the amount which it was thought the parish ought to contribute in the matter-hence the vestry above alluded to. The communication in the Ie Baner ac Amserau Cymru" is chiefly occupied by a report of a speech delivered by one Mr. Thomas Levi, a preacher, belonging to the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination; and the impression upon my mind is, that the speaker and the reporter are one and the same person. If such is really the case it occurs to me that the person in question is on excellent terms with himself, and is incapable of believing that any 'one, besides himself and his party, is worthy of credit. For although, he was more than once assured in the vestry that his assertions were incorrect, still he appears to hold to them with what appears to me reckless effroutory. "In the first place" he says, 44 Mr. Walters after tormenting the parish for a long time for permission to build the church, was at last allowed to do so on con- dition that it was to be erected by voluntary contributions, and that no rate was to be made for the purpose." There is in this sentence such contradiction in terms, as it were, as to make it almoet unworthy of notice, in consequence of the senseless and unmeaning verbiage contained in it. What necessity, let me ask, was there far the consent of the parish to erect a church by means of voluntary contributions < 1, and those who acted with me were privileged to erect a chapel of ease at Cwmtwrch in this parish, and which chapel was opened for divine service on the 13th July last, without ever thinking of asking the parish for its consent to its erection, and had there been any necessity for it, I could have erected a church in the centre of Ystrad village in the same man- ner on a spot of ground, about half an acre in extent, given to me by U. D. Gough, Esq., for a similar purpose as that to which the building in Cwmtwrch is appropria- ted or, I may have proceeded with the erection of the new church on the ground recently given also by Mr Gough, as an extension to the present cbt^ch-yard. For my own part I have no recollection that I ever met Mr. Levi at a public vestry, except at the one which was held here on the 2nd April, 1857, for the purpose of agreeing to certain plans and alterations about to be made in the parish church and church yard, with a view of obtaining a faculty for carrying the same into effect. At that time no mention was made of erecting a new church, and although I had the necessary funds at that time promised for the carrying out the object above mentioned, and that from voluntary resources, still Mr. Marryat and Mr. Levi, consistent in their opposition to the last, opposed the thing, and prevented my doing so. As however Mr. Levi says, that "after all the promises made by the reverend gentlemau" that no rate was ever to be made for the erection of the church, there will, of course, be no difficulty whatever on his part in stating the time, the place, and the circumstances in which all the promises" in question were made, and the" condition" above named entered into. It may be supposed that the amount of rate that Mr. Levi will be called upon to pay, after the decision of the vestry, will be something enormous. He says, 41A church rate has now become a heavy burthen on the country under any circumstances, but it will be still more so under the circumstances of the present case." I have no wish here to enter at all upon the merits of the ques- tion of church rates further than to observe that a mem- ber of the Peace Society may as well refuse to pay state i taxes which pay for war; or a man bedridden to pay highway rates, as a Dissenter refuse to pay church rates, because he does not approve of the form of worship which exists in the church." Or again the members of Benefit Societiis, composed as they are of the working men, the bone and muscle of the nation, may as well refuse to pay poor rates, because they maintain their own sick and disabled fellow-members, as Dissenters who have formed themselves into religious societies refuse to pay church rates, because they maintain their own form of worship. But in a pecuniary point of view Mr. Levi's heavy burthen will44 under the circumstances of the pre- sent case" amount to the large sum of one shilling and nine pence per annum. Mr. Levi also says in the course of his speech tha "Mr. Walters had been over the parish collecting for the new Church, and that Dissenters had contributed liberally towards it, believing that it was to be erected on this principle." Without wishing for a moment to undervalue the as sistance rendered to me by the Dissentsrs, many of whom, some of them being freeholders and subject to no undue influence from others, came forward of their own accord at the vestry to support the resolution. The" Gohebydd yn y Dehendir," bitterly complains 14 that he has been greatly disappointed in the Dissenters of the parish, and in some of the leaders among the people—some who turned their backs in the day of battle, and gave their votes in favour of the erection of the Church by a rate." Mr. Levi would, however, lead people to suppose that I had received a large some from the Disseutets of this parish in the shape of voluntary contributions. Up to this time I have only received .£2 10*. altogether. Such being the case, you may judge how liberal the contributions were. Mr. Levi also loudly complains of the manner in which the notice convening the vestry was published, and also of the opinionative desire I formed for building the Church which he attributes simply to a humour or fanciful idea of my own. To the first of these complaints I can only say that according to his own confession the proposed vestry was well known, because one of the first things alleged respecting it was, that "so numerously attended a vestry was never seen in the parish before." With respect to the second charge, I subjoin a letter written by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese:- "Abergwili Palace, Carmarthen, 17th Aug., 1858. "My dear Sir,—As you think that I may promote the success of your appeal to the public for the rebuilding and enlargement of your Church by a few words in confirmation ofthe statements contained in your circular, I very willingly attest, from my personal observation and knowledge, that tbis is a case in which a new Church is most urgently re. quired in the place of the present small, gloomy, and most unsightly building. I am, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, C. ST. DAVID'S. Rev. T. Walters, Rector of YstradgynUii> P.S.-I,lhall be happy to double my subscription." I also think it right under the circumstances of the present case, to give you a brief view of the state of this parish in respect to population now, and what it was 200 years ago. From returns then made, it will appear that there were in this parish only 143 people altogether. At that period, it was purely an agricultural parish, inhabited only by a few farmers and mountain shepherds. In later times the population has rapidly iodreased. For instance, in 1821, it had increased to 1181 in 1831, to 2078; in 1841, to 2885; in 1851, to 3758, and by this time the population is supposed to exceed 5,000. During the whole of this period no additional Church accommodation whatever had been provided for the increase and still increasing popula- tion of the parish. Notwithstanding the vast increase which has taken place in the population and wealth of this overgrown parish, we had until the present time but the same rude Church in which our forefathers are sup- posed to have assem* led to worship some thirteen or four- teen hundred yeats ago. Dissenting places of worship have been built, and again rebuilt and enlarged on a more costly scale. Even the cottages assigned to the labouring poor far excel the rude thatched cottages of our ancestors. And the houses occupied by the wealthier classes in the neighbourhood are much more costty and spacious than was the case in former days. Under these circumstances it can hardly, I think, be looked upoa ne « fanciful <id if • idea (mympwy) of my owti. if from a strong sense of duty I feel myself called upon to erect a more suitable structure, which, as the Parish Church is to be devoted to the glory of God, and the better accommodation of His people while engaged in the holy exercises of prayer and praise to the Almighty Creator. Another idea suggests itself to me on hearing and read- ing the report of Ms. Levi's speech, is this, that he takes it for granted that no one voted conscientiously in the matter but those who were opposed to the Church. So far as it accorded with his views of the matter, it was a case of conscience; but the moment any one choles to act contrary thereto, no charitable consideration whatever was allowed. It was this feeling doubtless prompted him to 44 express his deep regret that so many of the parish- ioners had been led to such a great temptation through the foolishness of the clergyman, so that they were bound either to offend their consciences or their landlords." Indeed,judging from the tone and spirit displayed by the opposition on the day in question. I cannot but fear that conscience is often saddled with a variety of heavy burdens of which she knows nothing. I have yet to learn that a ma i does violence to his conscience, unless he becomes guilty of some act or acts offensive to God and such as would prevent his going to heaven, and for the life of me I cannot understand how the payment of a church-rate when legally assessed, would prove any ob- struction to him in this respect. I pass over the remark made by Mr. Morgans, of Ystradfa wr, in seconding the amendment when he spoke of the "illegality of the proceedings" by observing that I attributed such an assertion to sheer ignorance of law and custom on his part, as it is very evi lent he had neither read nor taken advice upon the Act 5th Geo. 4, cap. 36. The same observation will apply to Mr. Bedlingtoq. the manager of the Ynyscedwyn Iron Works, as to the law of the case. But when we find that the agents of.the Company, from the least to the greatest of them, had been for days canvassing around the parish; and when we further learn that the means employed by them to in- fluence the credulous and ignorant was—" Will you come to the vestry to vote against the parson t He onlv wants £ 1000 now, but, if he succeeds in carrying his point on the present occasion, there are E2300 more to follow, and he will ruin the parish." When we further find that these men fraternize with the dissenters and men opposed to the payment of all rates, with the pro- fessed object of upsetting the parson, on whose ministry they,attend Sunday after Sunday; when we find that after all these steps had been adopted Mr. Bedlington, states—" that Mr. Marryat and his men had not come forward to the vestry to oppose the proposition," it will, I think, appear passing strauge, unless we are allowed to assume that they had counted their strength beforehand, and found that they could not hope to succeed. Mr. Marryat, it is true, did not attend the vestry, but his men were there. There were Mr. Bedlington, the manager of the works; Mr. Lister, the head clerk Mr. James, the furnace manager; Mr. David Jones, colliery agent, and several others, over whom they, as employers, necessarily exercised a considerable degree of influence. Again, Mr. Levi is, in the Baner ac Amserau Cymru," represented as having got up for the purpose of reply. ing to Mr. Strick's speech, but that the Chairman pre- vented him uttering a word the second time," and I am in consequence made to appear to have exercised a great stretch of authority. It is fearlessly alleged that if II Pio Nono" were Chairman of the vestry that much greater liberty and fair play would have been allowed." Now the facts of the case are these. Mr. Levi, irrespective of several petty interferences in the conduct of the proceedings, had already made two set speeches on the same amendment, and he again claimed the right of making a third speech, which, considering the great number of people present who might wish to speak as well as Mr. Levi, I did not think I should be justified in allowing. I then asked for a show of hands in favour of the original proposition, and afterwards in favour of the amendment, but being unable to decide who had it I suggested that the names of those present should be takeu down, both for and agaiust, with a view of testiog and ascertainining beyond the shadow of a doubt the feelings of the vestry in the matter. While this was going on, just before the votes had bften reckoned up, Mr. Morgans, the seconder of Mr. Levi's amendment, proposed that the vestry should be kept open till Saturday. I ruled that it was perfectly irregular to move any other amendment before the one already pro- posed was settled one way or the other. That I could not submit for the decision of the vestry two amendments emanating from the same persons at the same time one on the back of the other as it were. The votes having been eventually taken it was found that there were tor the amendment, 34; for the resolution, 69. The 44 Gohebydd" asks, in conclusion, two queries. 1st. Had the Chairman a right to prevent whom he pleased to speak at the vestry 1 To this I reply, that I never attempted to prevent any one from speaking at the vestry except Mr. Levi, and that I did not exercise my authority as chairman until after he had delivered two speeches on the same amendment, and was about to fur- nish us if he had been allowed with a third speech on the same question. All those present will bear me out in saying that after I had stopped Mr. Levi I asked if there was any other one present who would like to speak on the subject, but no one appearing to have any desire to do o°,4W8«'ie? l1°°k,th.e 8ense lhe *e8try In the matter. 2nd. Had the chairman a right to refuse to keep the poll open for three days 1 To this I reply, that if after taking the sense of the vestry in the matter any one had then demanded a poll of the parish, I should have been in duty bound to grant it. If44 Gohebydd" would take the trouble to refer to the vestry minute book he will find that on Easter Monday, 1857, after a resolution proposed by Mr. Richard Lewis and seconded by Mr. David Jeffries, c. that Mr. Morgan Morgans, Maesyfron, be appointed Churchwarden," an ameudment was proposed by Mr. W. H. Forester, and seconded by Mr. R. James,—that Mr. Henry Culli'more be appointed churchwarden. The amendment and original proposition having been put to the meeting, there appeared for the resolution, 28; for the amendment, 11. Mr. Forester then formally demanded a poll of the pariah. and I, as chairman, appointed the two following day. for that purpose. If on the last occasion after the first amenoment had been disposed of any ratepayer had de- manded a poll, I was prepared to have acted in the same manner as I did in 1857; but no one having at the time in question asked for a poll of the parish, the 44 Gohebydd" has nothing now left to complain of but his own extreme ignorance of the ways and means of con- ducting himself at public vestries of the parish. The 4<Gohebydd" also alludes to one pound's worth of ale having been distributed among the victorious party Here again he seems not to be aware that it is always customary at public vestries of the whole parish always to allow one pound for the use of the room and that it is the liberal spirit and good wishes of the worthy landlord. Mr. Richard Lewis, to give the value of it in ale to alt < those who choose to partake of it. I pass over the pro- fane and irreligious mockery made by him of the ancient and Apostolic Church of our forefathers, and can well afford to pity the man who lends his talents and his pen to such impious raillery. I will only remark that his reference to Mr. Strick and Mr. Price, of Glynllech, fa bringing all their tenants in one Btring to vote against their own personal convictions," is equally as gross a misrepresentation of fact as the rest of the report in question. How many tenants over whom Mr. Strick had influence voted in favour of the propositiou I know not, but I know that there were several absent; and as for Mr. Price of Glyullech, only one of his tenants, out of eighteen or twenty in number, voted at all that day.. I have thus endeavoured to furnish you with a correct statement of facts, as they occurred at Ystradgynlais, on the day of4he vestry. I am sorry my letter has extended to such a length, but I feel persuaded that you will en- deavour to find space in your next impression for it, so that the public mind may be disabused in the matter. I am, Sir. yours, &c., THOMAS WALTERS. Ystradgynlais Rectory, Dec. 12th, 1869.
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