The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

CORN AVERAGES, I For the week ending Saturday, Nov. Gth. The following are the quantities (in quarters) sold, and ttla price?, this .year and last year :— IJUANTITISS SOLD. PRICKS. This year. Last year. This yanr. Lust year. Wheat 45,921, 54,695 47s Gd 44s 5d Bariev 72,756 77,208 38* 3d 42a 8d Oats 3,793 3,501 24s 5d 27s lid

I CORN, &e. I LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The wheat trade to-day was Extremely dull, at a decline of Id to 2d per cental since Friday. Flour quiet. Beans and peas Is per quarter dearer on the week. Oats unaltered. Indian corn was in taoderate request, at about 31s 6d per quarter. i>Ricuts ,'last wee&i American Wiieat 9s OA. to ±«. oa. per iuou. Ittu,-]: j?i.->ar 37s. 0d. to 42s. Od. £ a80lb L Foreign 3 trloy 8*. 2d. to Ss. 9d. per 601b I £ &sUk(> fie-xn 71. "> ijB. Od. i 4fs. Od. *c 41s. 6d. !?" 4b0ib I LONDON, MONDAY.—There were good foreign arrivals f wheat and barley last week, but not much else. English whept 7,040 quarters, foreign 41,616 quarters. The show cf fresh samples from Essex and Kent this morning was Itaoderate, the condition being mostly inferior. Selected parcels were taken slowly at last Monday's rates, the re- mainder being neglected. The foreign trade was slow, but holders were indisposed to accept less money. Country flour 23,987 sacks, foreign 1,349 sacks 7,965 barrels. The I English demand was very slack, and prices barely main- ained. Fine barrel flour, made of old wheat, was very firIn, and in demand but that made of new was difficult t,) place. British barley 5,233 quarters, foreign 21,469 quar- ts. Malting descriptions of good quality found a steady eaquiry at former rates, and good grinding foreign went off 91lictly without change of price. The malt trade remained ate idy as respects the demand for good qualities. New sorts ^e coming more freely to market, worth 63s to 70s. Maize 10,204 quarters; this grain went off but slowly, at previous I, currency. English oats 700 quarters, Scotch 30 quarters, Irish 180 quarters, foreign 10,933 quarters. Foreign arri- vals again falling short, prices were further advanced 6d I Per quarter, but salea were not very brisk. English beans vals again falling short, prices were further advanced 6d I Per quarter, but salea were not very brisk. English beans 826 quarters, foreign 4,359 quarters. There was a moderate inquiry, at fully previous prices. English peas 755 quar- ters, foreign 2,254 quarters. The sale was blow, but rates "ere maintained. OUHBHKT PRIOES 0" BRITISH OSAIS AND 7&0UB IN MARK LAKE. aaibings !r qr. "beat, new, Lmex and Kent (whits), ,t •• 4a to 02 Ditto ditto r«d 42 4i wheat, NorfolA, Lincoln, and To*hi*a (red; 41 48 jj&rley •• •• 40 45 fceana 46 54 ^ftta.Rnili^h 25 27 Flour, pei sack (128)10. best Town 43J. to bis. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—The feeling in the wheat trade 5^8 very dull, and only an exceedingly small trade, was S.°ne, prices generally showing a decline of 3d per cent* ^°Ur slow. Beans and peas unchanged. Oats quiet, In- dian corn cheaper, at 31s 6d for mixed American. SHREWSBURY, SATURDAY.—Our market to-day was ?eU attended, and the small supply of good wheat realized week's prices. Barley was also firm in value, and moved ore freely than it has for some weeks. The quotations ere as follow:— _:1 a"" *4 U. W. U- White wheat, per 75lbs. 8 0 to 8 9 Red ditto, „ 7 4 „ 8 6 iiarley, per H8 quarts 5 6 „ 6 0 O&iti, per 225 lbs -0 0 „ *:7 6 £ nans, per 235 lbs 20 0 „ 96 0 ?fias, uer 225 )ba 18 0 „ 2^ 0 Malt, per imperial bushel 8 9 9 0 ..LONDON, WEDNESDAY.—The market remained inac- tive. English wheat came to hand in bad condition, and business was dull, prices tending in buyers' favour foreign ^LUiet aruj ariiiit,ered. Flour a slow trade, at barely previous a-iues. Barley a steady market for both grinding and halting s0rts. Oats quiet at last Monday's quotations. ai.2e a slow sale. Beans and peas firm, but unaltered.— rrlval- f grain: British barley, 2 250 quarters. Foreign heat, 55,300 quarters; barley, 4,550 quarters; oat?, 23,360 barters; maize, 6,960 quarters; flour, 1,210 sacks and 00 barrels. ABERYSTWYTH, MONDAY.—Wheat 6s 6d to 7s Od bushel; barley, 5s Od to 5s 6d; oats, 3a 6d to 4s C i; 10 for a shilling; salt butter, 00d to 14d Ctfi to l^d per lb fowls, 3s 0d to 4:i 0 ) per tollple ducks, 4s Od to 6a Od per couple; geese, 3" 0d os 0d each; turkeys, 5s Od to 7s 0d each potatoes, O* 0d to 3s 6a per measure. WELSHPOOL, MONDAY.-Whvat, 7s 6d to 83 Od pei • harley, 5s 6d to 5s 9dper 40 quarts; oats, 20s Od «> 23s 0d p,.r ba butter, 16d to .17d per lb eggs, 00 to S for a f Vn'l. fnwl3 3s 6d to .4s 6d per couple ducks 5s W to 5s 6d; geese, 5s 6d to 6s Od each; turkeys, Oil Od to Od Od each potatoes, 8 lbs for sixpence beef. 8d to lOd button, 9d to lid; veal, Od to 9d pork, 7d to Sitl per lb. NEWTOWN, TUESDAY (Nov. 9th).—Wheat, 7, Gi to 6s 0:1; bariev, 5,1 Cd to 5 9d; oath, 20s to 23 p",r bsu- •Kgs, 00 to 8 for a shilling butter, 17d to lSd p<-r lb; 3s Gd to 4s Gd per couple ducks, 53 Od to 5s 6d p-tr geese, 5s 6d to 6s 6d each turkeys, 5s 0d to 7» 0 P°tatoes, 7 lbs for sixpence beef, 8|d to 10 1 pei OSX^-1' to v to to V5>arf) t WEDNESDAY (Nov. 10th).—The following Wu- e quotptions: -Wheat, 7s 2d to 7a lOd; barley, as lid to lOl 4s 6d iDptatofH. to ai?easnre of9oibs, Os Od to 4s 6d; new potafoes^ o°Jd Per lb; butter, Is 6d to Is 7d per lb; eggs, 00 to r"T » shilling; fowls, 33 Od to 4s 6d per caupie ducks, 3 Od to 6s 6d per conple.

CATTLE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. -The stock on offer consisted 2,927 beasts and 8,052 sheep. There was a great falling in the number of cattle, and sheep were much about the as last week. The best qualities of both cattle and heep were in favour of sellers. Sales rather dull. Wintry customers were not so numerous. — Current Prices: Best beasts, 8id to 9d per lb; second ditto, 6d 10 «id; sheep, 7 £ d to'lO^d per lb. 2 METROPOLITAN, MONDAY,—The t..u.i imports ol orei^'n stock into London last week consisted of 11,356 1 corresponding week last year we received £ >.048; h, 1873, n,529 in 1872, 9,563; sradra 1871, 21,630 rp^a- The cattle trade has been steadier in tone to-day. he colder weather has stimulated the demand, and im- ported a hardening tendency to prices. The arrivals of beasts from our own grazing districts have been tolerably ^°°d, but the general appearance of the stock has been in Afferent. Prime breeds have remained scarce, and for ?Uch there has been an improved enquiry at full prices, the "feat Scots and crosses making 6s to 6a 2d per 8 lbs. 1 rom Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire we have received about 1,800, from other parts of England about 500, from Scotland 65, and from Ireland about 1,000 head. On the foreign side of the market the show has J^een less plentiful; the trade has been brisker, and prices have ruled steady. The sheep pens have been only moder- ately supplied. More animation has prevailed ia the demand, and the rates paid have been rather higher than on Monday last. The best Downs and half-breds have sold at s to 7s 2d per g pD8> Calves have changed hands at full prices. PigS baye beeu quiet> a:;RMINGB:.A M, TUESDAY.—We received a fair aver- • • leasts to-day, for which the trade ruled l'rniteri ^ce3 a shade higher. Sheep came to hand in 8C-0 c ?,1'rQbers; trade fair. Fat pigs a fair supply, about °lri;riK fre^h to hand; trade steady.—The quotations IS-1 v." Beef, 7id to Sid per lb; mutton, 8d to 10id per > bacon pigs, 10s Od to 11 0d per score; porket ditto, 3 0d to 12s 6d per score. SALFORD, TUESDAY.—The supply of beasts on offer smaller this mornicg. Only a slow trade was done, at Pt!ce3 tending in favour of buyers. The show of sheep was rjJDaewhat similar to last week, and with a larger attendance buyers, a better demand prevailed than for some time Past. A brisk trade was done in calves, and prime veal could not be bought under lid per lb.-Quotations: Beef, "ad to 9d; muttoD, Sid to 101d.; veal, 9,1 to lid per lb.

MISCEL T .,ANEOUS. LONDON PROVISION, MONDH.-The arrivals last i^ek from Ireland were 1,228 firkins butter and 4,035 ^'et bacon, and froui foreign ports 23,372 packages butter *j*d 3,705 bales bacoa. The butter market continued very ?'°w during the past week, and for some descriptions of foreign a decline of 2s to 4s was submitted to. In Irish but {JW transactions. The bacon market was also dull, at a further decline of 4s per cwt, both in Irish and Hamburg. T WORCESTER HOP, SATUEDAY. — Messrs Piercy, ^°ugbottom, and Faram's circular says :—Our market for Oops in quantity nsay be called practically over. A few eQiall lots on offer, for which growers ask extreme rates, and unletss they are r>aid prefer holding over. Good yellow and, IJrown hops still remain in request, at full prices. 700 pockets of hops were weighed this week, making the total I ,849 pockets. Several large buyers attended to-day, and Would not have believed that growers were so nearly cleared i out, if they had not seen it for themselves. LGNiJON HOP, MONDAY.—Our market continues firm, < With raiher less enquiry. A. la;-ge quantity of the inferior i grades have changed hands during ^,e week, at low i Prices, and stock* are considerably reduced. Choic« and 1 coloury samples extremely scarce. Continental markets are firm. LONDON WOOL, MONDAY.—The wool market has re- j gained in much the same position. The dfcLOar)d both for Colonial and English produce has been only to a moderate Extent, but the tone has still been steady. There has been |onie. enquiry for the low-price skin wools and coarse { blanket descriptions. x WOLVERHAMPTON HIDE, SKIN, AND FAT, ( ^ATTTREAY.—Hides, 95 lb and UDwards, 5-fd per lb; 8-5 lo 94 lb, 5id 75 lb to 84 lb, 4§d; 65 lb to 74 lb, 3|d; 56 lb ,0 64 lb 3|d 55 lb and under, 3|d; cows, 2Jd to 3^1: £ 1 ulls, 0d to 3|d flawed and irregular, Od to 2.^(1; kips, i tj Horse hide. 0^J Od to 00s Od each. Calf, 17 lb t ?^d i.pwads, 5^d per lb; 12 lb to 16 lb, 7d;9 lb to 111b. + > light, *r?d; flawed and irregular, 4 jd. Wools, 3s 9d t0 os 4d. F..t, 2d to 3^d per ib. LIVERPOOL PRODUCii, WEDNESDAY.—Sugar was 1 8? :Moderate request, at late rates. Rice quiet. Coffee j Kitrate of soda lis (id per cwt. Lard i.i buyers' avour. Petroleum unchanged. Tallow quiet. Olive" oil T,in, active. Linseed oil 25s Gd per cwt. Cottonseed oil 31s r cwt- Ripe oil oSsper cwt. Palm oil in moderate 4uest. Spirits oi turpentine 26s Gel p3r cv.'t. Ashes, 27s I c»t for pots, ]

TRA.DE INTELLIGENCE. WOLVERHAMPTON IRON TRAI)-], -W Prices were firm this afternoon all round. Certain pig- i makers secured 23 6d a ton advance, and here and there 5s more was got for sheets than before the rise in coal; but generally new business bad to be accepted on old rates, firm. The quotations for best sheets were very strong, and it was hinted that a rise in these of £ 1 a ton might be declared. It is doubtful, however, whether there will be sufficient agreement between the leading firms to make joint action practicable. Forge proprietors still decline to give more than a maximum of Is per ton advance upon the fuel they required THE CROPS AND THE CORN TRADE. The Mark-Lane Express says :—In favourably situated soils the autumnal sowings have been resumed, but a great extent of country is yet too sodden for the work. In France, however, it has been prosecuted freely, and they have nearly completed their labours. The continued heavy foreign arrivals have checked the upward tendency of prices, and Russian sorts, from their predominance, have rather given way; but home growth of good quality has about maintained its value, as have other sorts of tine foreign. No doubt, anxiety to make free shipments before winter had something to do with the arrival of 60,000 quarters from Russia last week, but if accounts are true from that country, the year's produce is very defective. Though our granaries now hold the unusual supply of noarlv half a million quarters of wheat, London itself contains four millions of inhabitants, with an enormous country demand to eat up any surplus. The Paris flour trade has teen dull, but wheat there, as in the provinces, has undergone little alteration. New York has slightly declined.

THE NEW JUDICATURE ACTS. Continued from last week. TRIAL AND PROCEDURE. Trials may now be held, in all divisions in such a mode as is suited to the questions to be decided either by a judge alone, cr by a judge and jury, or^ by a judge sitting with assessors. Every court may avail itself of referees, official or special, or may refer any matter to a district registrar, as the nature of the case may require. Trials in the Common Law Divisions will be conducted as here- tofore with these alterations first, the bill of exceptions is abolished, and in lieu of it an exception is to be entered on, or annexed to, the record; secondly, the granting of new trials for the rejection or admission of evidence is restricted to the case where substantial justice requires it; and, thirdly, sittings for trial by jury will be more con- tinuous, and more courts will sit at the same time at Nisi Prius. In the Chancery Division (with the exception of the mode of taking evidence), causes, motions, petitions, and further directions and Chamber business will proceed much as before. Facilities are given to the Chancery, and, indeed, to every, division to have questions of fact or law tried before a judge or jury in London or Middlesex, or on cir- cuit, as may be deemed convenient; and, subject to vaca- tions and circuits, there are to be continuous sittings in the High Court and Court of Appeal. The most important feature in regard to the Chancery Division is that, unless the parties consent or the court otherwise orders, all trials will be conducted by the viva voce examination of the witnesses in court. Formal matters and facts which require proof, will, no doubt, still be proved by affidavit, and the time of the court will be thereby saved: but it will be the suitor's own fault, if he does not have the material points in his case proved in open court. The question for decision will always be, whether, in the particular circumstances of each case, viv& voce evidence can be dispensed with in favour of an affidavit. Another valuable alteration in regard to evidence may bs generally adverted to; all facts not denied in the pleadings are to be taken as admitted; and much expense in proofs will thus be saved. This alteration ap- plies to all the divisions to which the new rules of pleading apply. DISTRICT REGISTRIES. All actions from all divisions (except in Probate actions) may be commenced in the District Registry, and (if the defendant appear there) may proceed down to and including entry for trial, signing judgment, or order for account and the action (if not removed to the High Court) may be tried in the District Registry, for which purpose the regis- trar has the same power as a Judge in Chambers; and judgment may be entered and the costs taxed in, and execution may issue out of, such District Registry. It is clear, therefore, that many actions, and the business which accompanies them, will be taken away altogether from London, and much expense may be saved in the item of witnesses and other local matters but the costs will be the same, as if the action had proceeded in London. It is observable that the writs of summonses can only be issued out of the District Registry by some solicitor having a place of business therein; in cases where the ousmess is intrusted to » solicitor whose place of business lies outside the district the solicitor would be obliged, either to entrust his business to an agent whose place of business was in the district, or issue the writ from London. The issue, therefore, of writs out of District Registries would, probably, be confined to business arisiiicr within the district itself. The defendant, however, has the option, in certain cases, of appearing in London, and the action will then proceed there. The de- fendant may also, in certain specified case?, and for good cause shown, have the action removed from the District Registry to London. Difficult matters may be referred to eq e a i dore of the High Court by the District Registrar, and an appeal from his decision lies to a judge of the High Court. Powers have been given to appoint the Registrars of the County Courts, and other inferior courts, to be District Registrars of the High Court, and these powers have been largely exercised by a recent Order in Council. The new system will derive much assistance from these experienced officers. OFFICIAL AND SPECIAL REFEREES. As \r,ap » administrative machinery is wanting in par- ticnlar divisions, the power of the conrts tfoere.»f to deal with certain classes of cases must necessarily be circum- scribed. If, in working the sybtem, it should become neces- sary that each several court should have its separate admin- istrative machinery, it can hereafter be added. At present, the difficulty is met by the appointment of official nd special referejes, or by tho transfer of the cause to that division, which, at present, has the complete administrative machinery. The court has the same power over the pro- ceedings and reports of referees, as it has in arbitrations under the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854. Referees may submit questions to the court, and the Court may refer any matter back to the referees for further consideration. This resort to referees will be found most useful in compli- cated accounts and scientific examinations. COSTS. A change has been made in the power of awarding costs. In Chancery, the discretion, with some exceptions, e.g., trustees' and mortgagees'costs, and the like, rested with the court. This is not altered. At common law. the suitor who gained a verdict, in whole or part, was entitled, as a general rule, to his costs to the extent of hi3 success • the court could not have deprived him of them, whatever his conduct nught have been. Under the new system, the successful suitor, in the trial of an action or issue by a jury, is prima facie entitled to his costs but the court, for good cause shown, may deprive him of them. In other respects, the rule as to costs is the same in the Common Law cnd Chancery Divisions, solely in the discretion of the court. THE PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMIRALTY DrvISION. The jurisdiction of the corresponding courts under the old system remains, and, with the exception of a few rules, the practice in this division will continue the same. By the Act of 1873, the ultimate appeal from this division was to the Court of Appeal; but by the Act of 1875, this altera- tion has been suspended; and appeals in matters arising in this division will, during the suspension, lie to the House of Lords, or to the Privy Council, as the case may be, as heretofore. BANKRUPTCY. The London Court of Bankruptcy is not consolidated with the Supreme Court, and the practice and rules remain as before, with these exceptions Appeals lie from the chief judge in bankruptcy to the Court of Appeal, and the chief judge in bankruptcy is to be selected from the judges of the High Court. The Court of Bankruptcy retains its separate officers, and is not, otherwise than as aforesaid, interfered with by the Acts. LUNACY. The law in regard to lunacy remains unaltered, with these exceptions first, the selection of future judges, in place of the Lords Justices of Appeal in Chancery, (in whom, with the Lord Chancellor, the jurisdiction is now vested,) is to be made from the judges of the High Court and Court of Appeal and, secondly, the ultimate appeal in lunacv which lay to the Privy Council, was, by the Act of 1873", trans- ferred to the Court of Appeal: but this alteration of the law is suspended by the last Act. CRIMINAL LAW. There is no alteration in the practice or rules in criKiiual matters, except that the Court of Error is abolished, and instead thereof appeals lie to the High Court of Appeal. INFERIOR COURTS. The jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas at Lan- caster. and the Court of Plet8 at Durham, is transferred to the High Court. The Chancery jurisdiction at these places remains as before, with the exception that, in respect of Lancaster, the appeal lies to the High Court of Appeal. In the Stannaries an appeal lies to the Court of Appeal: in sther respects the practice in the Stannary Courts is unal- tered. By the Act of 1873, the ultimate appeal from the Ohancery at Lancaster aud from the Stannaries was to the Dourt of Appeal; but, hy the Act of 187.5, this alteration has been suspended; and during the suspension the ultimate rppeal will still lie to the House of Lords, or to the Privv Council, as the case may be, as heretofore. The jurisdiction »nd practice of the County Courts and other inferior courts -ew-.tin the same with these exceptions The appeal from ;he County Courts is to be to Divisional Courts of the Sigh Court, pursuant to rules or arrangements to be made iy the judges; and the appeal from all other inferior courts 9 to be assimilated with that from the County Courts by Orders in Council to be issued for the purpose and ail nch inferior courts may, by Order in Council, have con- vened on thpm the same jurisdiction in Equity and Admi- ralty matters, as the County Courts now enjoy. Lastly, he new practice and procedure, and the new rules of iaw inder the Judicature Acts, are to apply to all inferior ourts.

Mr Osborne Morgan Q.C., will address his constituents .rex a'^ during the Christmas vacation. Mr Wackia Williams. Q. C., will probably give his annual address some iimo Gurmg the present month. TIlE IIAIR.-For 40 years Mrs S. A. ALLKn'S World'S HAIR ilESTOR^ii. has received the commendation and favour of the .tuta.ic. it ^has acquired the highest place that can be obtained .or any moaerate enterprise, and contributed to the adornment >f ten^Oi thou?anus of persons, who have the proof of its service- ible e-haractei. i-« will positively renew awl restore the original md natural coyur of ,ey, white, and, faded Hair. It will strengthen anil invigorate the Hair, stop its fallicg, and induce i healthy and lyocuTiaru growth. No other preparation can i>ro- luce 'he same bepenciai result. Sold by all Chemists and Per- i healthy and lyocuTiaru growth. No other preparation can luce 'he same bepenciai result. Sold by all Chemists and Per- umers, in large Dottles, 6s. Depot, 11G, Southampton Sow, London. I

1 BYE-GONES NOTKS, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on subjects interesting to Wales and the Border,v, will be thankfully received for insertion in this column. But they miutt NOT BE EXT TO THE EDITOR of the paper, or delay Mill ensue. In all cases please address Byegones, Croeswylan, Oswestry."

ArOTES. OSWESTRY GUARDIAN FINED. The in- stance given (Nov. 3, 1875) of a councilman elected to the office of Mayor paying the fine rather than serve, calls up a similar story at another representative chamber in the parish. On the second Sunday in July 1795, William Hughes, Esq., of Kynynion, was appointed one of the guardians for Oswestry parish, and at the meeting of Directors of the House of Industry, Monday, Aug. 3, ha was chosen a Director, but having refused to accept the office and having paid the penalty of £ 20, Mr Thomas Hurleston of Sutton in the parish of Westfelton, one of the guardians was (Sep. 7) appointed a Director in his stead." J ARca. FLINT AND MOLD.—Pennant did not under- stand why his native shire was called Flintshire, and very justly remarks that it could not be on account of the stone of that name. That the shire was named after the town of Flint there is no doubt. The word Flint, or, as it is written in old MSS., Flynt, may be taken as representing a com- pound word, and written Flyn-t. The nearest approach to the pronunciation of the Welsh LI" made by persons not Welsh is by "El" e.g., Lloyd becomes Floyd," Llag be. comes "FlarY." Snakespear phonetically spelt Llewelyn as Flevv(-I:n," aid the Welsh word Llyn is Erinianized (if such a word be allowed) into the well-known Irish family name of Flynn." The first part of the word is here found, and if inas be supplied, as Flyn-titias, the origin of the word, not to say a view of the place, appears at once. The original word therefore would be Llyii-dinas," or "the lake-fortress." To recapitulate, then Llyn-dinas, cor- rupted into Flyn-dicas, shortened into Flyn-d, and sharp- ened into Flynt, is the derivation of the word Flint as the name of a town. --Compare the d' final in Mold" with the t' final in "Flint," and it becomes a matter of opinion whether ttio word Mold is derived from Mont- hault" or from Moel-dinas." One of the oldest parts of Mold is, I believe, to this day called Foel." Y Wyddgrug, so far from being inconsistent with such a derivation, tells as plainly as a word can the purpose of Moel-dinas. Ap GWYNEDD.

OSWESTRY CHURCH ORGANS. Old Gough, the historian of Middle, tells us in his amusing diary that the organ gracing Oswestry Church at the time the civil wars broke out, was" imbtzzled;" and other records say that it went to London to the Church of St. Mary Axe, not far from theMinories. We know tbatthe Uswestry Royalists performed deeds worthy the once popular reputation o Oliver Cromwell, so the story may be true at least this is true, that the organ disappeared. That organ, which has been described as a very fine one, stood in a small gallery that occupied a position close to the south door, previous to the restoration of the church. From that period up to 1312 there is no record that I am aware of, pointing to the erection of any new instrument, so later on organ gallery No. 1 became the vested right of seat-holders. But early in this century our grandfathers determined on a new organ, and the question arose, where it should be placed ? Another gallery was decided on, and it was built across the nave, in a line with organ gallery No. 1. But when the handsome organ came, it was found that it was too large for organ gallery No. 2, so organ gallery No. 3 was erected, which crossed the nave where it joined the chancel, and there the organ was put up. The Rev. D. R. Thomas of Cefn, St. Asaph, in his History of the Diocese, tells us that there was a grand musical festival" at the opening, but on what scale this generation has never been informed. It is to be presumed that the organ was formally opened on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 1812, for I have a document before me containing the programme and book of the words of the doings of the Second Morning." The following copy of the title-page will sufficiently explain what these doings were:—"Oswestry Grand Musical Festival, under the direction of Mr C. 1. Ashley. A Grand Selection of Sacred Music, from the most favourite works of Handei, Haydn, Boyce. Pergoiesi, Galliard and Cooke, Marcello, Graun, and Mozart. Performed in The Church, on Wednesday Morning, August 26, 1812. Principal Performers Mrs Salmon, Miss D. Travis, Miss Smeethurst, and Miss Travis Mr Bradbury, Mr Garbett, and Mr Tinney. Leader of the Band, Mr White. Second Violin, Mr Stevens. Viola, Mr Smith. Violincello, Mr C. I. Ashley. Oboe, Mr Erskine. Trumpets, Messrs HyJe and Ridings. Double-Bass, Mr Hill. Double Drums, MrJenkinson. Organ, Mr Newcomb. The remainder of the Baud and Choruses, which will be numerous and complete, by the most approved performers." This programme, which extends to eight 8vo Pp., was printed in London by E. Macleish, of 2, Bow-street, and was sold at sixpence. The conductor's monogram is printed on the title-page. I observe that Mrs Salmon (who was the chief attraction) sang With Verdure Clad," Mr Bradbury Deeper and Deeper Still&c., &c. Perhaps some readers of Bye-goncs can supply further particulars, especially of the first day's proceedings, JAECO.

QUERIES. CWM-LIIvEY.—This name occuis on p.^ 329 of Part xvii of the Montgomeryshire Collections. Can any of your readers give its situation and an explanation of the word likty ? Q. RODNEY'S PILLAR (Feb. 17, March 31, 1675). Did Aug. 10,1782, fall on Sunday? as I have been told the opening festival of Rodney's Pillar was on Sunday in corn harvest and there was a heavy thunderstorm came on rather suddenly, and some of the farmers lost their erain by the flood on that day. E. K.

REPLIES. TALES ABOUT WALES (Oct. 13, IS75.)-The Tales about Wales published in 1837 were the second edition of Stories from the History of Wales," which had been published in December, 1833. The authoress was the eldest daughter of Richard Pryce, Esquire, of Gunley, in Mont- gomeryshire. In 1827 she was married to Robert Camp- bell, Commander in the Royal Navy, and first cousin of the Bard of Hope. Captain Campbell died at Gunley in December, 1832. L.C. THE SALOPIAN BRIDE (Oct. 20, 1875).—My communication this week partakes soiaewhat of an anti- climax, and my authority, as before, is Mr Hulbert. I must premise that all I have to say relates to persons and events prior to] 837, the date at which the work was published. When the Earl of Exeter had settled his affairs he returned to Shropshire, discovered his rank to the astonishad male and female Hoggins, and settled them in Bolas Villa (after- wards Burleigh Villa) with 2700 a year. The (Ild folks, however, did not long bjOY it, for the father was accident- ally killed and the mother broke her leg and died in conse- quence. The brothers and sisters of ";ally Hoggins" were amply provided for. One was educated for the Church, another placed in the army, and a third, John', became a gentleman of property and respectability at Micklewood, near Longiaor, eight miles from Shrewsbury. Anne, agister, died in India, where her husband had an appointment, and sundry of the servants and work-people were pensioned Mary Berks, who nursed the first child of "Mr and Mrs Jones," was allowed £ 10 a year during her life, and died at Boias. John Griffiths and Jane Taylor were paid their wages to the day of their death, the Marquis who followed the earl in succession, continuing his father's bounty. "Bur- leigh" Villa was made over to a godson, Creswell Tayleur Esq,, who died shortly before Mr Hulbert wrote, and Mr Tavior, of Crudgington, bought the estate. Sally Hog- gins," I may remark, did not live to be a:marchioness, as b,'r lord was not raised to that dignity until 1801. As Mr Cecil he was unfortunate in his first choice, as Mr Jones happy with his second and. in 1800 he again mar- ricd; his third wife being Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton." Before leaving the subject I may just mention an incident connected with this romance. The Hogginses had a neighbour named Fox, a blacksmith. The Earl obtained a commission for him in th army, and gave him S50 a year in addition to his pay. Officers then, as sometimes now, indulged in horse play, and poor Fox did not lead the life of a harmonious black- smith.' Emblems of his old trade appeared on the mess table by the side of his plate, and although "an oflicer he was not treated as a gentleman." So he exchanged into another regiment, did valiant deeds, and was raised to the rank of Lieut-Col. He died in'" 1832, and Mr Hulbert saw a portrait of him at the house of Mr Taylor, of Wellington, where he gleaned these particulars. This Fox forms one of Mr Salisbury's "Border Counties' Worthies;" see page 152 of Bye-ganes for 1S74, and in reference to the statement of the way the family were provided for, I may remark that in the Salopian Journal of June, 1800, there is an announcement of the marriage, at Clifton, of Miss Hog- gins, sister of the late Lady Exeter." Doubtless much gossip might be gleaned from our elders on the subject of this romantic incident, and it would be very acceptable I am sure to readers of Bye-gones. N.W.S I can furnish several anecdotes current seventy years ago among the people in the neighbourhood of Bolas respecting Mr Jones." The first notice that his case was a remarkable one was suggested by the suddenness and earnestness of an exclamation he made as he was reading a newspaper, Oh I see Cecil's bill has passed." This caused some talk, but people did not know what to make of it. The next step was from the Earl's inadvertence in sealing a rote with the top of his pencil case on which his arms were engraved. This note was brought to my father, who was fond of Heraldry, and he was asked, Whose arms are these ? He then pointed out in Gerard Legh's ,L Accbdens of Armoury the Cecil arms, and made a note in the margin of the page. I have the book now in my possession with the note. It seems to have been written for the information of the person who sent the seal, and probably the book was sent with the marginal note by way of loply. The account given by your correspondent (from Hulbert) agrees in some respects with the account current at the time I speak of, but differs much in others. Of course I cannot vouch for the exactness of the anecdotes, but I fully believe that they were in the main pretty correct. The first young lady Mr Jones paid his attention to was said then to be a Miss Picken (or a young lady who afterwards became Mrs Picken.) It was said, too, that "Mr Jones" was made an Overseer of Loias and served the office. Are there any records at Bolas that would confirm or contradict this ? This is of some importance, because ic was also said that when he tock his books to Squire Eyton, he was subjected to very uncivil treatment, and that he afterwards remarked that "Squire Eyton was the greatest little man he ever saw." The above were current and fully believed in the neighbour- hood at the time I speak of. The story was told that she (Sally Hoggins) fainted when abruptly told her rank. Wbixall Vicatage. JOHN LVAXS. [We s'lall inot,ILtily receive any further gossip about this old Shropshire romance for publication in Bye-gones.—ED.] j

MR WKALLEY, M.P., ON THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. On Tuesday evening, Nov. 2nd, ISJr Whalley delivered a lecture in the National school, Ruabon, on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. The Rev R Ll. Taylor presided, and the attendance was large. The proceeds were for the benefit of the Accident Hospital. The lecture itself con- sisted mainly of historical arguments, to prove that our "Protestant religion and the liberties of England," the famous^ inscription on the standard of Wiiliam the 3rd, constituted the very essence of our British constitution, being the condition of allegiance to the Sovereign-as well as the immemorial principle of the policy underlying our laws and institutions from the earliest periods of history." In his introductory remarks Mr Whalley said that until lately he might have been looked upon as eccentric in this matter, and the abuse and villification and misrepresenta- tion which the newspapers bad bestowed upon him for nearly the whole of his life in Parliament—nearly a quarter of a century-bad no doubt left the impression that he wa.s a very unsafe guide in such matters. But since last year matters had assumed quite another aspect. Mr Gladstone had himself cast off, with the cares of office, the degrading servitude to Popery and priestcraft—to which indeed he well knew^he owed his failure in the last general electioii- and had summoned the country to awaken to its perile- portentous and tremendous" as he describes them, of longer submission to Popish intrigue and insolence. Mr Gladstone, however, had not ventured to come forward in Parliament or in public meetings to raise this cry, but had contented himself with writing pamphlets; and although he complained that the newspaper press did its utmost to sup- press and pervert what he thus wrote, he still persisted in abstaining from any other public action, withdrawing him- self more and more from public affir. Mr WhallcV then alluded to the struggle which had for some time being going on in Germany, and to recent events in America, ? a reason for every man's looking into the matter himself. It is," he said, "absolutely true that, as against the policy of priestcraft, most men are but children of a larger growth,' ar.d that, as history troves,they have waited till the flames of persecution reached themselves individu- ally, or involved the nation in civil or foreign wars, before they could be rescued from the net of Piiestcraft. We have, however, a very good history if it be properly read by which we can see what our ancestors did and what by failing tn do they suffered-and this it is my desire to make known." Mr Whalley then proceeded to lea] his lecture, which was listened to with the greatest interest throughout, The proceedings closed with the usual votes of thanks.

FROM THE^PAPERS. Dr Phere has been re-elected vice-chancellor of Cam- bridge University. Colonel Ireland Blackburne (Conservative) was returned unopposed for South-West Lancashire on Friday, Novem- ber 5th. It is stated that the highest legal authority" in which the Slave Circular was drawn u¡" was that of the Lord Chancellor, and the Attorney and Solicitor Oenerals A telegram from Cuckfidd states that Miss Bentley a yeung la.dy living near there, has been drivea mad by a spider getting into ;ier ear while asleep. Mr Birch, British Resident at Perak, has been murdered in Malayan territory. Troops have been sent from Peuang to punish the offenders. Sir James Hannen on Friday, Nov. 5, decided in favour of the will of the late Mr Foley, the sculptor, which was made ten minutes before his death. A few days ago, at Chester, two children, Anne and Lizzie Ruscoe, six and seven years old, were playing in a brewery, where they were accustomed to plav, when they I fell into a pan used for washing the utensils, and were drowned. < i The gas company have agreed to pay two-tniras of the damage arising out of the destruction of tbe Liverpool Landing-stage—estimated at £ 200,000—as well as the dock board's legal expenses in cjnnction with the trial of the case at the last aize.. Mr y. E. Forster, M.P., delivered an address at Edm. burgh on Frid&y evening, Nov, 5th, on our colonies. He advised close confederation with the mother country, and expressed a hope that by such a peaceful and muustrious union they would set a most important example to the world at large. The: number of persons in England and Wales sentenced to penal servitude last year was 1690, of whom 1,443 were males and 257 females. The number of persons committed who could neither read nor write was 53,805, of whom 35,479 were males and 18,326 females. Lord Derby, replying to a deputation of Turkish bond- holders on Friday, Nov. 5, observed that it had been the invariable practice of the British Government of late years to disclaim interference with foreign loans. Any interven- tion must be unofficial. An English steamer, the Charles Dickens, stranded in entering Boulogne on Saturday, November 6th, and struck against the pier. Attempts were made, but without suc- cess, to get her off, and ultimately she slink across the entrance of the barbour, tffectuallv closing the port. A Blackburn correspondent states that the wife cf a por- ter was recently sold for 4d to a machine maker in a public house in that town. Articles of sale" were drawn up and signed, and the receiver celebrated the occasion by order- ing two quarts of ale. On a subs, quent afternoon, the persons concerned re-assembled at the same public house, and "all seemed happy together," the parties, including the woman, being all satisfied with the bargain. In consequence of friendly explanations which have passed between the Earl of Darnley and the officer com- manding the troop of the West Kent Yeomanry, in which his lordship's tenants formerly served, Lord Darnley has renewed the support which he had for many years accorded to the officer in question in maintaining the Cobbam troop. Very gracious of Lord Darnley In the course of an able speech delivered at the opening of a new Liberal club at Bury on Saturday night, Nov. 6th Mr Stansfeld, M. P., said the worthiest way to ensure the return of the Liberals to power would be to ignore all ques- tions of party or personal motives, and to be determined on all possible union and organisation. The Liberal party should be prepared to agitate for national, compulsory edu- cation, and a well-devised system of popular self-govern- ment. General Schenck of the American legation, has forwarded an official correspondence to the papers that he has bad with his Government on the subject of securing American degrees or diplomas, which he characterises as a systematic fraud practiced on the British public. The official commu- nication from Mr Secretary Fish's office states that there is no such institution known in America as a Philadelphia University of Medicine aud Surgery, nor isthfreany act of incorporation in New Jersey of a Livingston University of America at Haddontield. In the COHt of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, application was made, on behalf of the guardians of the Keighley union, that a writ of mandamus, which the Local Government Board had obtained against them, for having neglected to put in force the provisions of the Vaccination Acts, should be quashed. It was alleged that the manda- mus had been improperly served but the Lord Chief Jus- tice said that could be gone into on the return of the writ, and the court refused the application. The custom of wearing dark clothing in the winter season is, according to the Lancet, simply flying in the face of inature;" and the same authority says that a more judicious selection is suggested by the fact that animals in the cold re- gions areproviaed witu white furs. The rule is simple enough. When it is wished to take in heat easily or to give it off rapidly, the surface should be of a dark hue when the ob- ject is either to keep out the external heat or to preserve that which is generated within, tke colour should be white or bright. There should be no diffi. culty in procuring stuffs for winter clothing combining sufficient substance and low-conducting material with light and cheerful colours. Captain Allen Young, the commander of the Arctic dis- covery ship Pandora, writes to the Times tbt, in the ab. sence of evidence as to the route by which the Erebus and Terror reached the point at which they were finally beset, the Pandora may fairly claim to be the first ship tver known to have navigated through Peel's Straits to lat. 7:2.8 at the entrance of Franklin Channel, and thus to have added one more step in the right direction." He adds that be hopes (to make another attempt at solving the great Arctic problem, but that if he fails he will still cherish the expectation that some more fortunate navigator will in the future prove the North-^West passage to be open for at least a short season in most years." j At a recent meeting of tbe Medioil Society in Bonn, Professor Zantz brought forward a case in which a gentle- man who had for several years been subject to migraine observed that for some days he had headache late in the evening-, which, without interfering- with sleep, continued in the morning, and was accompanied with loss of appetite and malaise. In about a fortnight the symptoms became more severe, and lasted the whole day. At the same time similar symptoms, but much less severe, appeared in two students who sat at the same table in the evening. The green shade of the petroleum lamp was suspected ta be the came of the mischief, and, on chemical examination, it was found to contain arsenic. Its use bein¡r discontinued, all the symptoms ceased in the three individuals. It was evident that the beat of the lamp had set free the arsenic, and the greater severity of the symptoms in the first men- tioned individual was due to the fact that he was near- sighted, and therefor.* sat nearer the lamp than the others did. Professor Zuntz said that he himself was some years affected in a similar way, though less severely, while using a green lamp-shade, in which arsenic was found.Briti.Sh Medical Journal.

EOCLESIASTICAL The annual conference of the clergy and laity of the di- ocese of Manchester commenced on Thursday, November 4th, Bishop Fraser presiding. There was a lar^e attendance. The bishop delivered an aldresson the position of the Church of England and then the dean of Manchester read a paper urging that laymen should be licenced by t'.e j-ish••• i- preach and conduct the services of the church, with the ex- ception of those which were necessarily to be performed by the priesthood. A discussion followed. In the Exeter diocesan conference wn Thursday, Novem- her 4, the debate on the burial question occupied near! all day. The Rev Treasurer Hawker's proposal to permit Nonconformists under certain safeguards to bury their dead with their own service in the burial grounds of the church was rejected by a large majoity. Bishop Temple strongly supported the proposal. The Rev. J. B. Heard, M.A., who recently seceded fiom the Church of England, has accepted the pastorate of Stockwell-green Congregational Chapel which had been of fered him with the approval of the Hackney Theological College, the trustees of the chapel. Recognition services were held last week, and Mr Heard was received with the utmost cordiality by most of the leading ministers of the neighbourhood. It is announced from Bristol that the Rev David Thomas, B.A., President of the Congregational Union in 1865, and minister of Highbury Chapel, Bristol, expired early on Sunday morning, November 7th, at tLe age of 64, having been taken suddenly ill just after completing the prepara- tion of his sermon for Sunday. The Hon. and Rev C. J. Willoughby, Rector of Wollaton, near Nottingham, Grand Chaplain to the Imperial Order of Odd Fellows, and brother of Lord Middleton, of Birstall House, Yorkshire, died very suddenly on Saturday. The rev gentleman in the morning appeared to be in his usual health, and officiated at a mar- riage. As he was concluding his dinner, he suddenly complained of a pain in his head and fell back unconscious. Preaching rt Bristol Cathedral on Sunday, Nov. 7th,' Preaching fit Bristol Cathedral (.n Sunday, Nov. 7th,' Bishop Ellicøt said there had lately been a st, iking and aD- parently preconcerted advance all along the line of the Romish Church, which wa9 so separated from tb^ Kpforrred English Church that approximation was disioyaitv. aud even peace impossible. Attempted union with Euch a Church was far worse than fruitless. All endeavours to find a common ground were illusory and wrong. The secret advocacy of the perilous teaching of sacramental confession was the greatest danger wich which loyal Church- men had now to ccntend, as it involved for the young and sensitive a danger which no words could overstate.

THE SLAVE CIRCULAR. Historicus (Sir William Harcourt), in a long letter to the Times on the circular, says that the assertion I in the circular that a Queen's ship becomes subject to the local law as soon as it enters a foreign port, is in fact the absolute and entire surrender on the part of Great Britain of tbe immunity and exterritoria- lity of her navy- a riht which is claimed and conceded by every maritime Daticn in the world. It is nothing else but to haul dawn the pennant and to reduce the Queen's ships in every port of the world to tre s.t,'é'r situation of mer- chantmen. There never was the lea.-t occasion to stir a question which had never given rise to any difficu.ty. There is no road out of the embarrassment in which the navy and the nation are involved except by putting out fresh instruc- tions which shall be set forth in principles exact .y the oppo- site of those on which the circular is founded. The Times remarks that the slave circular is worthy to be remembered as a proof bow grossly men with all the advantages of information and experience may m stake the course which seems obvious to the rest o. the world. All that was necessary was to hint to commandine officers to keep a stricter watch as to tne people who came on board.

FACTS AND FANCIES An Englishman was boasting to a Yankee that they had a bcok in the British Museum which was once owned by Cicero. Oh that ain't notbin' retorted the Yankee; 'in the museum in Boston they've got the lead-pencil that JNoan used to check off the animals that went into the ark." Somebody wrote to the editor of a country paper to ask how he would break an ox ?" The editor ausv ered as follows- If onl}- one ox, a good way would be to hoist him by means of a chain attached te bis tail to the top of a pole forty feet from the ground. Then h0i.:< him by a rope neu tu ilia uuius w-> ttuutuer poie. Xaen nn hi a back alfive ton pile driver, and if that don't b^ak him let him start acountry newspaper, and trust people for sub- scriptions. One of the two ways will do it sure." "Coming across the channel the other night." said a traveller, I trot chatting with a German, and asked him what he was doing." Veil,' he replied, 'shoots now I am doing ncdings, but I have umde arrangements to go into pizness.' What are you going into? 'Veil I goes into partnership mit a man.' Do you put in much capital ? 'No I doesn't put in no gabital.' Don't want to risk it eh? 'No bat I puts in de experience.' 'And he puts in the capi- tal ? Yes, dat is it. We gaps into pizness for dree year; he puts in the gabital, and 1 puts in de experience. At the end of de dree year I viil have the gabital, and he vill have de experience. THE OVST £ H RIXG.—The pathway to reform is not strewn w:t':J. roses. I am reminded of this by a little incident. I have always bought my oysters opened. Mrs Perkins and rnyselr are fond of oysters, and eat a great inasy of them. It occurred to me one day' last Saturday, to be more direct -th,,t there exi--ted a monopolv in opening ovsters that was hurtful to tne public purse. Whenever I get held of a notion of that Kind I work it UD. I worked this up I brought home a. baa bushel of oysters in the shall. Satur- day niiiit, and put them in the cellar till tacn-ng when they were to be opened fresh for breakfast. When morn- ing came I went down stairs and brought up the oysters while Mrs Perkins got ready a knife and pan. I wasn't quite dressed, because I was a little eager to profit bv an experiment. Mrs Perkins shared this earnestness in a measure, and was anxious to have me go to work at once. It is said that the less a man knows about anything the more willingly he engages to do it. I knew nothing about openine oysters; I had never opened one in my life. But what I lacked in knowledge I made it up in z.-al. When everything was ready I smiled at Mrs Perkins and com- menced. I found the most difficulty with the first oyster. I looked some fifteen minutes for the hole in which to put the knife. But I couldn't find it. Mrs Perkins, who rather impatiently watched the survey, suggested that it might have fallen out, and would be in the basket. Mrs Perkins was lightly costumed, and there was no fire in the stove. These things wore on her and made her ironical. There wa3 no use looking further for a hoie in that oyster. I got out my jack-knife, which was sharp, and placing the point at what reasonably appeared to be a crevice, pushed firmly against it. If I had used a little more firmness it is more than likely that both the blade and handle would have passed through my hand. As it was it was only a part of the blade, and I was enabled to null it from the same side it entered. This was an unexpected advantage, and I hope I was sufficiently grateful, ¡'t1t it is doubtful. Mrs Perkins screamed when the biood new. You're the awkwardest man I ever saw," she observed. It was anea*y remark. Niaetv-nine women in every hundred would have said it. I tied up the wound in silence, and renewed my endeavours to train an entrance, with zeai materially abated. Pretty s I missed part of one thumb and the knife snapped in I thought over a few os.uis I had heard when a boy while Mrs Perkins went for another knife. They don't make knives of the material they used to. I was surprised to see them break as fast as they did before I got that Ovster open. Mrs Perkins was somewhat surprised herself. I think if I had not been bald there would have beeu considerable variety added to tbe performance. I didn't break the last knife It slipped over the edge of that accursed bivalve, and went across the apex of my knuckles with a ferocity almost human. It next went into the stove. I went into the yard to think. Mrs Perkins went upstairs for a cry. Wfc. n'l came in I was accompanied by the axe. The balance of those oysters came apart in two minutes. And monopolies are better en. dured than cured.—Dantury Kcwsman.

THE BOY AND THE PARABLE. Mr J. Traviss Lockwood, inspector of schools in religious in the diocese of Ely, writing to the Times on the education question, says, that we have, even in this physically and mentally flat diocese, a vast amount of dul- ness and inertness to contend with, is unhappily true; but there is both "reflection" and intelligence in very many children. The school and the scholar shall be nameless which supply the following illustration. I gave a class of boys, as an exercise, any parable they might choose to write, and one paper I here copy, written by a boy scarcely ten years old :— I'm agoing to write the parble of the good Srnartan. There was wunst a man as went down from Jersum to J ereo and fell among theves as strip him cf his does and waounded, maulin him a good dele, and laft im more dead than ative; and there cum by too men as shud a helped him and didn't, wun was a prest and tother a lefte, then theer cum by a Smarten and when hee seed im he bound up is waouads poring in oil an wine (why didn't hee drink the wine) and set him on his own caml and took him to a inn and tuk care on im-an when hee went away next day hee tuli out tuppence and hee says to the landlord hee savs heers tuppence, tak care on him an wen I cum this wav tomnr if ye spend ony more III giv it ye. This is the parbie of the good srnartan.'

THE PROFESSOR OF THE FUTURE.. This Lady Professor's so wondrous wise, Her very face is a study She mounts a pair of celestial blue eves, And her mouth's small ellipsis is ruddy. To masculine pupils of various age She lectures,—for such is her duty; And the old ones think her an absolute sage, An the young ones a perfect beauty. Her small white hand has a clencbing force, If sometimes her facts look like fiction Ann, whatever be the logic of her discourse, xier smiles breed instant conviction. Such sweet little theories doth she advance Ana her eyes emit proofs so thickly, Her senior disciples fall into a trance,' Her juniors in love as quickly. Now, though Punch's opinion should go for noueht Or be slighted as merely funny. He holds that if thus tbe old fellows be taught, The boys will get most for their money .—Punch.

NORTH WALES CALVIXISTIC METHODIST ASSOCIATION. The quarterly association of the Calvinistic Methodists of North Wales, with the presbyteries of Liverpool and Man- chester, was held at Beaumaris on Wednesday, Nov 3rd, under the moderatorship of the Rev L. Edwards, D.D., principal of Bala College. There was a large attandance of ministers and delegates. The morning was occupied with the ordination of Mr John Jones, Holywell, who at the Carnarvon September association presented himself as H volunteer for missionary work. Ihe charge to the newly ordained minister was im- dEI-L*vered by the Rev Dr Edwards, and the Rev William W illiams, Swansea Rev D. Williams, Crickhowell Hughes, Cassia, tock part in the service. 1 he named gentleman will be accompanied back to Cassia by Mr Jones. Mr R. ROWLANDS, Portmadoc, brought up the report of the deacons, which recommended the appointment of Mr Roger Evans, Pentraeth, as treasurer, and Mr P. M. Evans, Holywell, as secretary for the coming year. It was also reporter tlmt the meeting had had under consideration an appeal by M. John Roberts, Bangor, for reinstatement in his office as deacon, of wnich be had been deprived four years ago The deacons meeting recommended that the decision of tne Arron monthly meeting, against which Mr Kuberts appealed, should be confirmed. The report was unanunou. y adopted, and a vote of thanks was accorded to Mr P. 1. Lvans, for his past services rW J- L tea0e ° Vacob Jones, the report of the chapei aeeus Com nittee, of which Mr R. Davies M.P ctiairman, was read by the general secretary. term of office of the Rev. Griffith Parrv. Manchester the genera^ secretary of the association, having expired the appointment of the Rev. Daniel Rowlands M.A.' principal of the Bangor Normal College, to hold the ex. aminership for the next three years, was recommended.- The Rev. D. Rowlands signified his acceptance of the appointment. Resolutions in favour of petitioning Parliament for the Sunday closing of public houses, and for the establishment were adopted of the Sunday ClosiuS Association, were On the motion of the Rev. OWEN THOMAS, Liverpool, eeeondea by Mr CLEATOX, Llanidloes, the secretary was directed to fyrward a letter or condolence to the widow and tamry of the late Mr R. Williams. Q.C. The deceased gerioi.enj^n had for many years gratuitously rendered vain- able a-sistance to the connexion, and at the September Association he was presented with a vote of thanks, and the deacons' committee was then instructed to arrange for the presentation of some substantial recognition of his services. A letter was now read from the late Mr Williams ack.now! Ipdgir. the vote of thanks, and expressing gratification that he bud been ftf service to the cause. The Rev. DAVID LLOTD JONES, Llandinam, introduced the desirability of forming a ministers' sustencation fund and proposed that the opinion of the church should be taken on the subject through tbe medium of the monthlvm*etini« The proposition was seconded by the Rev. FE\SCt<5 Tnv —The JIODEKATOE read a letter from a DoVell- v '(-'NIL whose identity he was not permitted 'o .ar!» approval cf the proposal, and offerin- a SiC £ 1,000 towards its being carried into f ^"P'-fpn of sion which followed, an opinion was ^-V,r t-n tbe oiscns- desirable that the ministers' widow -d )nat !t WSS be first raised, aud that the prom^-f orP^fnnd should ment of a sustentation fund w^s n-'r, ° establish- was not pressed. '■tire. Taeresolution Thursday was exe'ra-r1 1 the opening sermon h^ZreSd morning;. T'ne ° [ re cLea haif-past s-x in the Edwards, OwenTw! c°nducte,i b-v ReV8 L* Liverpool Griffith ^-Lum.ey, Josiah Thomas, M.A, Rrtih,; W V-if oy' Manchester. R. Winter, Liar. Llov L 'T NO, T >amS'- ar5''Ja' Morris, Caearthro, D. in-ic- -p' J. Jon^s. Peccaene.wvdd, P. G. Hughes, Cassia. J. Fonlkes, Ruthin, D. u^ms, Crickhowell, and J. Roberts, Vron.

Captain Adams, of the whaler Arc:ic,. who arrived at Duncee on Saturday, Nc-vember 6Í1, from Davis Straits, brings an encouraging account of the prospects of the Polar Expedition, He is of opinion that tie Government ships must hive reached a higher latitude than tiiey would have been able to attain for many years pass.