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Our sole attitude before God, because of aught in ourselves, can he but one of deep, deep humility the attitude of the humblest penitence the bending down under conviction of guilt, and sense of weakness the supplication for mercy and grace. Indeed, to be bold because of aught we can do, or be, or have would be heinous and unspeakable sin. But boldness we may have that boldness therefore we can only have in or have would be heinous and unspeakable sin. But boldness we may have that huhlness tlieref,)re we can only have in what another has done or can do for us, even in the merits and in the love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Chriit. It may be but the boldness which Cometh of a full assurance of faith," aid accompanieth "the true heart,"—the boldness which distrusts not Christ's power, or the Father's yearning wish to forgive, the boldness which accompanieth the true heart, the loving obedient heart, the heart which hate;h sin, because he hates it. the heart which loveth man, bee;, use he loves man, the heart which knoweth how if it be but true to him Christ will come to it and dwell with it aud tend it and make it his own, like unto his own, filling it with "the fruit of his Spirit, love, joy, patience, peace, eentieness, goodness, fai'h. meekness, temperance." —Dian Elliot.
..---GOOD THOCGHTS.
GOOD THOCGHTS. •' The holy ones are the lowly ones. We can bury our sins in no grave but Christ's. It is well when we leave pleasure with happiness. 0 sinful pleasure thou wilt need a repentance more costly than thy delight. From idle talk seldom ariseth comfort, many times repent- ance. One Anchor will never betray our trust, if our trust is in it {slone. Smiling lips speak sweet things silently. iCcdern lights are too dazzling so see by. All must wait, all should ¡¡,pc in waitiug. I Sow in prayer, that he may reap in praise. A Bible alt. ay under dust will not prepare its owner for dust." I am afraid (observes a living writer) there are some mothers who would snatch their infants out of heaven, if they could: but that feeling is not pure love, it is mere selfishness. ANGER WITHOUT A CAUSE. All was now ready for lowering its down into the angry waves, when the commander ordered me out of the boat, and gave my post to a stronger man. Filled with anger at not being singled out, and denied what I considered as my privi- lege, I quitted the part of the deck, and went below, without staying to see how the others succeeded. Here I not in- Tf dulged m;, sullen resentment more than five minutes, before I learnt that the instant the boat was launched into the water, one wave of the breaking surf dashed it agaiost the ship's side, and broke all the oars, and a second completely over- whelmed them in the deep, to rise no more. !STTRATION OF THE LIFE OF A JIEDIOAL MAN. Mr. Chadwick says in his Sanatory Report," that in the medic u profession examples are not rare of the attainment of extreme old age yet, as a class, they hear the visible marks of health below the average. The registration for one year may he an imperfect but the mortuary registration for the year 1859 having been examined, to ascertain what was the average age at death of persons in the three professions, it appears that the average of t!■ e clergymen who died in London durii-g the year was 4 ), of the legal profession ."0, and of the medical profession 45. Only one rne-lic ,1 student was included in the registration hall the deaths of those who died in their novitia e been included, the average age at death of the medical profession w-.ul-i have been much lower. This state- ment corresp nds rather cli,sely to that of Caspar of Berlin, WIIO, taking the average duration of human existence as threescore all,1 ten, gives medical men an ave:age of forty-five years, or a1 out twenty-five years less to live than wouhl have been their allotted space under other circum- stances. Yet this is II >toriously the worst paid and the worst treated of all the three professr ns. 'I'll3 remuneration of neither of the other two is so scantily awarded or grudgingly bestowed, and anxiety of mind causes a woeful wear and tear of the human frame; but the public, for whose good this awful loss of life is sustained, is utterly regardless of the sacrifice. A HINT FOR MR. BABBAGE. Lord Thurlow, when Chancellor, called me into his room at Lincoln's Inn Hall, and. among other things, asked me if I did not think that a wooden machine might be invented to draw bills and answers in chancery. I told him that I should V.e glad it such a machine could lie invented, as my stationer's copy of my pleadings generally cost me more than the fees paid me by the solicitors Many years after this, and when lie had ceased to be chancellor, and I was attorney-general, a bill was filed against his friend, Mr. Macnamara, the con- veyancer, and Lord Thurlow advised him to have the answer sent to me to be perused and setrled. The solicitor brought me the answer. I read it It was so wretchedly ill composed and drewn, that I told him that not a single word of iL 11, that I had not time to draw an answer from beginning to end; that he must get some gentleman to draw the answer fromèlhcginllin>¡ to end who understood pleading, and then bring it to me to peruse. I went down to the House of Lords the same day to plead a cause at the bar there. Lord Thurlow was in the House and came to the bar to me, and 6,,¡d, "So I understand you think my friend Mac.'s answer won't ao." said I; "my lonl, it won't do at all: it must have been drawn by that wooden machine which you formerly told me might be invented to draw hilis and airwers." That's very unlucky," says Thuriow, "ailli impuden too, if you had known the fact, that I drew the answer ¡uyself. Lord Eldon. RURAL CUSTOMS. Dr. Spencer T. Hall in his delightful little volume" Rambles in the country," published in 1344, speaks of rural customs at IL.thersage, in Derbyshire. The book has long been out of print. Like most other villages in the Dales, Hatliersage retains many of our old rural customs. I just jot down a few, and the traveller may, if he chooses, gather many more from any communicative resident. There lately appeared in a popular periodical, an apology for Gray's celebrated Klegy, against some mighty fine critic who had accused the poet of n anachronism is his illusions to the curfew bell Both the accusation and the defence were alike impotent utterly gr mndless. The curfew hell is still rung in Hathersage from Michaelmas to Lady-day at eight o'clock every evening, and in hundreds of English villages besides. Between Lady-day and Michaelmas a bell is also rnng at five in the morning, t,) call the villagers up to their work. hen a person dies out of the village, the 'passing bell' is always rung the evening before the funeral, to warn the parishioners to prepare for the ap- proaching ceremony and when, on the following day, the funeral arrives, the procession usually waits at one of the inns, whilé) such of the inhabitants as have been on terms of relationship or intimacy with the deceased, assemble for the purpose of accompanying it to the church. On Christmas-eve almost every household burn file yule-log,' and on the fid- lowing (lay various ban's of minstrels begin to perambulate the neighbourhood, and in the course of a fortnight visit every house in the parish; while a number of boys go about performing the celebrated play of 'Saint George These to s ine readers, may appear trifles, yet they are trifles which, in their way, are not without interest they serve t,) inform its of the habits of our rude, unlettered ancestors, they are, in fact, rustic mile stones on the track of time by which we measure the march of the mind." BARRY CORNWALL. He was five-and-thirty before he wrote poetry at all. He heard some poetry highly praised, thought to himself" Well, I don't kllow; I think I could do as well as that;" he tried, and became famous. His favourite method then and always was to compose when he was alone in a crowd, and he de- clared he did best when walking London streets. This was attested by his odd habit of running into a shop to secure his verses, often earrying them away on scraps of crumpled paper in which cheese or sugar had been wrapped. His habit and his aspect helped him well in concealing his authorship, as long as it was his pleasure to do so. His was not" the poet's eye," according to the popular conception. He was so exces- sively shortsighted that he hardly seemed to have eyes and the habit of sleep which grew upon him duri 'g the hitter years of his life scarcely increased the dimness and insigni- ficance of that feature of his pleasant face. He had the hesi- tation and uncertainty of manner aud movement which belong to shortsigiltellt,ess; and he was rarely or never found di5e'Hlrs'l1g fluently, unless when getting on the subject of pictures of old days, when alone with an intimate friend. His manner was that of a shy and somev.h it fatigued or absent bwyer, leading no one to suppose two things which were highly characteristic. On the one hand he delighted in manly sports, whha he was young. lie was learned and practised in cricket, and also in pugilism, so that he could represent the excellences of each of the champions of the ring in his young time. But he had nervous weaknesses which Could not have survived this sort of discipline but for their connection with his shortsightedness. He used to tell of the horrors which grew upon him, when he was twelve years 0111, as he became more and more per -uaded that a raven in his father's garden haunted him and played the spy upon him. The raven s eye was upon him, or the bird came in front of him whatever lie did, and the onus became so intolerable that one day the unhappy boy flew at the favourite and killed it. In high places the nervous sensibility always showed itself. Most pee,ple are disappointed at the Shakespeare Cliff at Dover; but Proctor avowed that he threw himself instantly on his back, and wriggled away to the distance of two acres be- fore he could persuade himself to stand upright. Those who knew him by his*ea-songs, "The Admiral," and The Sea! the Sea and have imagined him at the mast-head in a storm, would certainly not have recognised Barry Cornwall" in Bryan Proctor under such circumstances- not yet on the deck of any vessel. While his sea-songs were sung to Neukomm's music all over England and the United States, Proctor had actually never been afloat. He was on the sea for the first time in 1850, when he crossed to Boulogne, to see Air. and Mrs. Basil Montagu. The Channel was remarkably smooth; yet he was sufficiently uncomfortable to provoke the satire of his companions as a gay deceiver of the British public,—The Daily News. BIG BEN. Everything about the clock is gigantic. The dials are twenty-two feet and a half across, and each of them 1 consequently presents to the world a surface of nearly four hundred feet square. The figures on them are two feet long, and the minute spaces a foot square. In going once round the face, therefore, each of the minute hands traverses a distance of sixty feet, mid in the course of the year passes over nearly a hundred miles. Thus, since the clock was started, about fourteen years ago, each of these points must have travelled little less than fourteen hundred miles-not a bad illustration of what may be done by sticking to business, even though the progress made be all but imperceptible. During the same time the bells within have given nearly six million strokes, or have counted the population of London, one by one, nearly twice over. The hands themselves are copper tubes, attached to solid gun-metal stalks," and, together with the counterpoises" — the weights at- tached to the spindles inside for the purpose of balancing -— oach of them weighs nearly two hundredweight. Not- withstanding the ponderous weight and the enormous sweep of these hands, their regularity is marvellous. Twice every week the clock reports its progress to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich by electricity. There its rate is checked by the galvanic motor-clock, which is every morning regulated by actual observation of the stars during the night. Any error in the movements of the great hands at Westminster is thus detected, and is telegraphed back. These errors are carefully regis- tered, and, according to the Astronomer Royal, the clock does not vary a second in a week. The winding, with- out the striking part of mechanism, occupies twenty minutes. Once more into the dark stone staircase, and I am presently in the belfry, with the cold stars shim- mering through the open masonry, the tiny lamps twinkling up from the world below, and the fretful winds wailing and rumbling around the dark, silent monsters that never give mouth but all London knows it. The huge black mass in the centre is Big Ben, nine feet in diameter, eight inches and three-quarters in thickness, and between fifteen and sixteen tons in weight. The hammer that striks him has a cast-iron head weighing nearly seven hundredweight, and around the sullen giant are his heralds, the chimes, one of them weighing seventy-eight hundredweight, another thirty- three and a half hundredweight, a third twenty-six hundredweight, and a fourth twenty-one hundredweight, and rounding D, E, F sharp, and'G sharp respectively- the great chieftain himself booming out a terribly bad E- In striking the quarter, half-hour, and hour, the first.stroke is usually within two seconds of Greenwich mean time. Big Ben is expected to begin operations within one second of true time, and to enable him to do this, the fourth quarter begins twenty seconds before the hour. This striking part goes only four days without winding. The operation is performed twice a week, and is nearly a day's work. The weights are about a ton and a half, and the shaft in which they move up and down is a hundred and seventy-four feet deep. The clock has a pendulum weighing upwards of six hundred- weight, and measuring fourteen feet five inches in length. -Leiture Sour,
THE SWANSEA TRAINING COLLEGE…
THE SWANSEA TRAINING COLLEGE FOR SCHOOLMISTRESSES. On Friday afternoon a conference was held at the Swansea Training College, Nelson-terrace, Swansea, es- tablished in connection with the British and Foreign School Society's College for Training Mistresses for Ele- mentary Schools. Lord Aberdare presided. The attend- ance was riot large, but amongst those present we noticed Mr. L. Ll Dillwvn, M P. the itevs, J. Griffiths, rector of Neath J. C. Gull m, Swansea D. Williams, R. T. Howell, Isaac Thomas, William Will'ams, W. Jo .es, F. S-imuel, William James, David Phillips; D. Jones, Owinhwla; Professor Morgan, Carmarthen; Messrs. B. Williams, T. Phillips, C. T. Wilson, J. J. Jenkins, J. Griffiths, Thomas Ford, C. Glaseodine, T. H. Davies, John Adams, kc., &c. The following ladies were also present ilIrs. and Miss Horman-Fi-her, Miss A. Di'lwyn. Mrs. C. T. Wilson, Mrs. Glasoodine Miss ¡ Bath, Miss Grt nfell, &c, Th i conference was convened for the purpose of con- sidering three questions 1. Ought Wales to he left without a single trail ing college for mistresses by the closing of the temporary institution at Swansea ? 2. If not, what prospect is there of raising the sum which is required to make the college permanent ? 3. In case of permanent establishment, is it better that the institution should he managed bv the committee of the British and Foreign School Society, or by an independent com- mittfe? Lord Aberdarc, in opening the conference, said he thought they might very fairly assume that aU present had read and considered She questions in !he circular con- vening the meeting, and assuming that the next point was how could the discussion of the very important mat- ters raised by those qnescions be best commenced ? his Lordxhip thought they would aglee with him they should have the kst foundation for the discussion if Mr. Bourne the secretary, would make a s'atement of the facts of the case. Mr. bourne expressed his pleasure at seeing his lord- ship present to help them that afternoon, and then went on to say that three years ago he had been responsible for uiying the committee of the British and Foreign School Society to provide a training college for mistresses for the West of England and South Wales. There were two methods suggested -one to leave it to the Principal- ity to s'pply its own wants, and the other to start the college as an experiment, trusting to the friends in Wales to take it up. A conference was held at the Town-hall, and thero was a manifest indisposition to take the respon- sibility, and the parent committee then consented to the. establishment of the institution in the present premises. They h ol now an institution consisting of a sufficient staff of tutors, and the full complement of students, and it was approved by the Government Inspector. The in- stitu'ion was in good working order, and free from debt, because the burden had been borne by the parent society. As far as the students w. re concerned, no regard was paid to sectarianism, and all the outgoing pupils had been able to get scho Is. No student had failed to get a certificate, and onlv one pupil had been placed in the fourth class. There •■"as likely to be a sufficient number of applicants for admission in the future as there had he"n in the past. Mr. Bourne then went on to say that this raised the question, why should the institution not be continued ? It had been successful, why not cairy it on as hef t-e ? The re rson was that the institution was only taken up by the parent society for three, years, and that period had now expired. Afterwards, howev er, it wis decided to continue it for four years and the time wouhl come to a close at Christmas. 1875. The college bad cost. the society £ 500, £ 1,500 in setting she institu- tion g"iog. and £ 350 a year since to keep it going. The sum of £JG,s had been subscribed in Wales, which would make the expenditure nearly £ 3.000 by the time the ex- periment of the p n-ent committee expired. The stun of £ 350 a year woul he required in the future to keep the insti'ution going, but in addition to this, would be ah-ol,.tely needed to make the premises permanently suitable for the purpose, and satisfy the government in- spector The ques'ion was- -How is this sum to be raise ? The parent committee having already expended £2,50n in star ing the institution, it could hardly be ex- pected that, it. would contribute any large amount, especially a- the wealth of Wales was a proverb in every- body's mouth. A Blli ding Committee was appointed in and U" to the present time the subscriptions which li d been given or promised amounted to JE800. The question then arose -What was to be done ? Should the college be given up ? If not, would the friends help the so iety to c .rry it on in the way in which it had been carried on hitherto? It was very important that these aue.-tions should be decided soon, as it would be neces- sary, if the college were to be given up, not to promise the next year's pupils that they could remain in two years, and as the trustees of the premises were anxious to have some terms made. Mr. Bourne said letters had been received from a large numbtr of gentlemen, whose names he mentioned, and as too much t rue would be occupied in reading all the let- ters, he uii^ht bri-fly summarise them by stating that with one single exception they took it for granted that the college must be continued, and coiitiiiiie(I iii Swansea. (Hear. h ar.) Fourteen had expressed opinions in favour of carrying on the college as at present, and six preferred the establishment of a local committee. He might, refer to Mr. Vivian's lette- in which he asked if they were not attempting too much —ought not the society to say it would raise £ 2,000 if £ 1.000 was raised in j-'ou^h Wales and the West. of England ? Lord Abe:,da»e suggested that it would be to the con- venieo e of the meeting if he said that there would he n) advantage in their adhering closely 10 each question in the order they ap reared. He thought it was hardly pos- sible to di-cuvs the questions seriatim, but they should consider tlwfII as a whole. Mr. Mo-ganB. Williams commenced the discussion, and retnurke ) that the establishment and maintentnee of training colleges 'or teachers was not only the function, but the duty of the State. Lord Aberdarc said that that was an abstract question, and was not before the meeting. Mr. Williams, resuming, stated that he only expressed his opinion. The present movement had his sympathy and hearty co-op "ration. It would be highly satisfactory if his Lordship, as a member of the late Government, would expre-s his opinion as to the Government estab- lishing training colleges. Mr. C. T. Wilson thought the money required could be raised in Wales, but he strongly deprecated a separation from the parent society The Rev. R, T. Howell, referring to the constitution of the committee, said that it had miserably failed in its work. Personally, he was quite willing to retire and make room for a better man. The number of persons of different denominations on the committee was unequal, for while there were only 11 nonconformist members on the committee, there were 17 of one sect. Of these, 14 of the one sect alluded to resided in the neighbourhood of Swansea. While only 7 of the members of all the other nonconforming bo lies lived in the neighbourhood. Besides, he had been told there were members on the committee who had not contributed a single sixpence towards the maintenance of the college. He believed the qualification for membership of Borough Road College was a donation of £10, or a subscription of one guinea annu <l!y. That was not the case here. What, he con- tended, should be elected was a representative com- mittee. Let there be some qualification, and then he ventured to say there were gentlemen present who would not mind undertaking in three years' time to find £3,000, and become responsible for the amount of the rent for three years longer. Only let them have a committee similar to that of Borough Road College. Lord Aberdare then addressed the meeting, explaining that he did so at this early stage of the proceedings because he wished the questions before the conference to be clearly understood. His lordship said that this insti- tution was founded, no doubt, partly because there was no such institution in Wales, and partly because of the great and increasing need of training schoolmasters and schoolmistresses. In 1870 an Act was passed, which had the effect at once of increasing school accommodation, and stimulating school attendance, thereby creating a necessity for a much larger number of masters and mis- tresses. It was quite true that in order to meet the pres- sure of such a demapd, the Privy Council wisely, he thought, departed from the old principle that no school should be managed by certificated teachers. They made a modification of that rule, and allowed masters and mis- tresses, who were thirty-five years of age, and had had the management of schools for ten years, to undertake the management of a school as if they had received a cer- tificate of examination, but there was no doubt that with this the supply would not be sufficient to meet the de- mand which would shortly arise. His Lordship said he would bring before them some facts from the last blue book, which showed the necessity for providing more qualified masters and mistresses. The mere extension of education, the mere enlargement of schools, if the charac- ter of the masters and mistresses was materially deterior- ated, would be a very doubtful advantage indeed. Now there were these facts. In 1869, the year before the Education Act was passed, there was accommodation in schools receiving Government aid for 1,765,000; and in 1873 there was accommodation for 2,582,000, making an increase of £17,000. Lord Sandon, in moving his educa- tion estimates, estimated that in July, 1875-within seven or eight months of the present time —there would be in board schools accommodation for 500,000, in others for 2,500,000, making a total of three millions. Then beyond this there were schools not receiving grants, but approved by the Privy Council as being efficient, and they were of course rival candidates for good masters and mistresses. This made accommodation in all for 4 millions. Of course, it was quite clear that this enormous increase of children must require a corresponding increase of mas- ters and mistresses, and good ones, because it was not only necessary to extend education, but to improve it. (Hear, hear.) He for one would lament any retrogade step with regard to the efficiency of masters and mis- tresses. In 1869 there were 12,842 pupil teachers, but in 1873 they had reached 25,126. This was very encourag- ing, but they required the means of enabling those children to complete their education whose parents allowed them to devote their time to the honourable and noble task of teaching, hence the necessity of maintain- ing institutions of the present kind. The statistical account showed that in 1869 there were 12,027; but in 1873 there were 16,725. When he was informed of the intention of Mr. Bourne to call a meeting to consider this matter, he negociated with the secretary of the Privy Council, asking him whether this additional college was wanted, and he received the strongest possible assurance that colleges were wanted, and this one for Wales in par- ticular was much needed. He thought it would be a dis- grace to the Principality if an institution started so well and prosperously, and doing such good work, should be allowed to fall through. (Hear, hear.) The only danger of its failure arose from one especial cause, and that was the general ignorance as to the particular need of such an institution-and need of it in Wales, for if the facts were successfully put before the public, and an appeal for help made, he believed that out of the wealth of the Princi- pality the need could be supplied. For his own short- comings in not having contributed towards this result, his lordship explained that when he had promised to pre- side at a meeting last year, he was called May to attend a Cabinet Council, of which he was a membir, otherwise he would have attended. His own opinion was that there was a very great necessity for such a college as this. Now, when they came to the money part of the question, what they wanted was increased knowledge. The ques- tion of education had been too much connected with the question of religion. He did not wish to dissociate edu- cation from religion, but what he meant to say was that, as eeitain gentlemen were accustd of caring for the Pope first and the Queen after, so many persons thought of the Church first and tin; school after-the indirect results to their particular denomination, rather than the national advantages of a good system of education. It was a feel- ing existing so deeply and strongly, that there was no use to reason and cry againt it. This he considered an answer tc the gentleman who asked why the Government did not take in hand, the foundation of colleges. Had they done so it must have been upon the broad unsec- ta- ian principle, or exclusion of religious teaching alto- gether. It was impossible for the Government to take up denominational institutions, found them, and support them without any voluntary connection. The discussion on the education Bit! showed what the chances of suc- cess would have been if they had made that a porti >n of their Bill. They had had difficulties enough to struggle with, but they would have been enormous if they had undertaken to support institutions of this character. It was quite clear to the present Government, or any other Government, that they must parJially depend uoon local suoport They received some 75 per cent. from the State, but the other 25 per cent ,withthe local management, must come out of private sources. He would be in favor of the local management of this institution ir ho thought they could really have a fair representation of Wales upon the commiftee—if they could have gentlemen from other parts than from the neighbourhood of Swansea, and treat the institution as a national one, representing the Princi- pality. Although he was of opinion that no better site could be chosen, for he believed there exists a larger number of intelligent, men in Swansea than in any other town in the Principality; still he thought it would be after all more or less a local institution for Swansea. They h >d an institution such as he meant at Bangor, where there was a local management which had been suc- cessful—he said successful, because it was still in exist- en e. although its struggles for existence had been very severe but Bangor was not Swansea, and Swansea might have advantages which Bangor had not. At the same ti ne there w-.re many advantages in being connected with the old society which had done so much good. He thought they must be agreed that they wanted good schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, and to supply them t,hey must lmve snch colleges as these. The present one wis c011llucte,] on principles which agreed with the rdi- rious condition of the Principality; bu t then came the question whether they were prepare. I to adopt fresh and strong measures for finding the necessary money to carry it out. It was useless to pa-s a resolution in its favour, unless they were at the ame time prepared to put their shoulders to the wheel. His lordship went on to say that the Parent S ci^ty had done all that could be expected of it, and, in conclusion, referring to the desire of many to go to London colleges under the mistaken notion that the training was lIlorl1 complete, slill he believed neither the Stockwell nor the Borough-road In- stitution could be advantageously enlarged unless by estahlishing vigorous young colonifs in some other parts. Mr. Dillwvn said he a'reed with what Lord Abe: dare had said. He wa« favourable to the society being con- tinued in connection with the British and Foreign School Society, for then it was much more likely to command support. As to its establishment in Swansea, he did not think they could find a better place. He would be very glad to do his best, to back them up and assise them in raisin the funds which they required to carry on the college. (Applaus.) The R"v. D. launders had no doubt that the money could be raised if the object were well advertised and made known tr) the people of Wales, al111 if the manage- ment did not persist in the course of eliminating Welsh characteristics. He advocated a separation from the parent society, as he considered it would secure th" COll- fidence of the public by having an independent local management. He was sanguine that the money could he raised, and he believed that there wtre several gentlemen who would undertake the responsibility of carrying it on. Th" Rev. B. Williams was in favour of an independent committee. The Rev. R. T. Howell asked whether, in the event of the colle- e being taken up by an independent committee, the British and Foreign School Society would expect the amount expended on furnishing, &c.- £2,500-to be re- funded. Mr. Bourne replied in the negative, and said subse- quently that, after all arrangements had been made, the Parent Society would no doubt consent to hand over the institution to 1' cal management. A long, unimportant conversation followed, at the con- clusion of which His Lordship said that what the local committee would have to do in case the college was separated from the parent society would be to raise about £2,200, as .£800 had al-eady been promised and subscribed. They would also have to obtain annual subscriptions to the extent of £400 or so, in round numbers, which, w th the Govern- ment grant of fl,600, and the fees of the pupils together, would en:l.ble the committee to meet the expenses. Afterwards his Lordship put to those present the ques- tions which the meeting was convened to consider. Th re was an unanimous vote that Wales should have a training college in Swansea. When the third question was put, "In c;iseof a perma- nent establishment, is it better that the institution should be managed by the committee of the British and Foreign School Society, or by an independent committee," there was some difference of opinion, and, after a short discus- sion, the Chairman put the question to the meeting, when 10 voted in favour of remaining us at present, and 18 in fav. ur of an independent committee. Mr. J. J. Jenkins then proposed that a Building Com- mittee should be appointed to carry on the institution, and obtain the necessary funds for the purchase of the college, and making the necessary alterations and that the committee consist of Mr. L. LI. Dillwyn, M P., Mr. Rees, Rev. D. Saunders, Mr. Alderman T. Phillips, Mr. Alderman Ford, Rev. William Williams, Rev. R. T. Howell, Mr. John Lewis, Mr. C. T. Wilson, and Mr. S. S. H. Horman-Fisher. Mr. Phillips seconded the proposition. Mr. Horman-Fisher and Mr. Wilson begged that their names should be omitted, as they could not act if the college was not in connection with the British and Foreign School Society. A desultory conversation followed, and upon it being stated that the resolution just come to to separate from the parent society was not binding, the two gentlemen named allowed their names to reroaiu, and the resolution was then amended, and it was eventually agreed that the gentlemen named in the above resolution should be appointed a provisional committee for the purpose of collecting funds and for preparing a scheme for the future carrying on of the institution upon the principles of the British and Foreign School Society, the scheme to be submitted for approval at a future meeting. The proposition, as altered, was then seconded, and agreed to. A vote of thanks to Lord Aberdare for presiding termi- na.ted this portion of the proceedings. In the evening, after the visitors had partaken of tea, the annual meeting of former and present students took place.
SWANSEA POLICE COURT.
SWANSEA POLICE COURT. SATURDAY. [Before Mr. J. T. Jenkin and Mr. M. B. Williams.] NEGLECTING TO MAINTAIN HIS WIFE.—Mr. O. Howell, one of the relieving officers of the Swansea district, sum- moned Thomas Perrin3, a mason, advanced in years, for neglecting to maintain his wife, in consequence of which she had been chargeable to the Swansea Union for seven years Mr, C, I-I; Glascodine appeared for the defendant and stated the rather startling facts of the case. It ap- pears that some forty years ago the defendant married Mary Thomas and lived with her about 8 years in Swansea. They removed to the Hills, and one day she left him and went to live with another man. Nine years after the defendant met her in the street at Aberdare, a reconciliation took place, and they went to live together again. Nineteen years ago his wife left him again and he knew nothing.of her whereabouts until these pro- ceedings were taken. Twelve years ago the defendant got married a second time, and in this complicated state the case stiil remains. Mr. Glascodine contended that since the woman had left her husband in the way men- tioned, he was not liable for her support. Besides, he had known nothing of her location, and therefore he could not be said to have neglected to maintain her. The case was adjourned for a fortnight for the production of evidence for the defence. COUNTY BUSINESS. SURETIES OF THE PI ACE.—-Thomas Bassett, a pit sinker, having used threatening language towards his wife, was bound over in the sum of £ '20 to keep the peace I for six ll1onth3. DRUNKENNESS. — William Austin for being drunk in Loughor was discharged on payment of 10s. Gd., this being his first offence. John Webb, painter. Oyster- mouth, wis charged with being drunk and refusing to leave the Currant Tree Inn, Mumbles. Sergeant Baker gave evidence. Defendant admitted being drunk, but said that the diink supplied to him in the Currant Tree had made him so. The case was adjourned in order that the landlord might be summoned. John Frank was fined £1 and costs for being drunk. CATTLE STRAYING.—William Jones was charged with allowing his pony to stray on the highway, near Brynhir. The Bench inflicted a fine of 5s. and costs, 15s. 7d. in all. William Beynon, for allowing three cows to stray on the highway, in the parish of Llanrhidiar, was ordered to pay the costs, and cautioned as to his future care of tl1e cows. MONDAY. [Before the Mayor (Mr. F. A. Yea), Mr. J. C. Fowler, Mr. J. T. Jenkin, and Col. G. G. Francis.] SELLING BEER WITHOUT A LICENSE.—Richard Red- more, an eating-houje keeper, residing at the corner of Cross-street, was charged on the information of :1 person named William Hurley, with selling beer without a license on the previolls Tuesday evening. Hurley stated that on the evening in question, having received instrac- tions and tram tho police, he went into de- fendant's house and asked for something nice for supper. He was served with a plate of goose, with potatoes, turnips, bread, &c. He also asked for some beer, and the defendant brought a bottle and poured some out. Wit- ness paid Is. 6d. for the supper, and, on leaving, asked for a bottle of beer to take with him, but was refused. After witness left some police officers went to the house, and, under the power of a search warrant, examined the whole place, but found nothing of a nature to show that the defendant was in the habit of carrying on an illicit trade in beer. When Hurley called there the following morning for the purpose of leaving a theatre bill, defeu- daut told him that if he "split'' about the beer that was supplied to him, tlw two men whom he had seen on the previous evening waald "murder" him. Sergeant T. Allison stated that at a quarter past eleven on the night alluded to. he stood at the corner of Goat street, while Hurley went into defendant's house and had supper. During the whole of tLe time Hurley was in there no one came out or went iu as if for the purpose of fetching beer, and he .vas quite certain the beer supplied to the informer could not- have been fetched without being seen, because the defendant's house had no back entrance. Mr. W. R. Smith (Smith, Lewis, and Jones', appeared for the de- fendant, aud contended at considerable length and with much ability that no transaction in the nature of a sale had taken place with reference to the beer. The goose supper had cost Is. fid. and the defendant had given the informer, gratuitously, the beer that remained after his own supper. The defendant was also sworn, and stated in brief that the informer was a hill deliverer for the theatre, and in consideration of the fact that Hurley sometimes left a free ticket for the theatre, defendant harlmà,le him a presenb of a small quantity of beer. The bench considered that the defendant or his witness had endeavoured to mislead them in reference to fetching the beer on the night in question. This was a serious offence that must be put down. Defendant would be fined £ 5 and ensts. DRUNKENNESS. -Henry Honbin was fined 5s. and costs for being drunk in Regent Court. Mary Ann Daniel, charged by P.O. Smith with being drunk and riotous in Back-street, was sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment. Richard Morris, a young man, was proved to have been drunk, and the bench inflicted a fine of 10s. and costs. Mary Ann Arnold was charged by P.O. Keefe with being drunk in Wind-street, and making a noise. Defendant 8:lid she was only quarrelling with her husband. Fined 5s. and costs. Charles f-1 ayes was proved hy P.C. Evans to have been drunk in Oxford-street on Saturday night, and was fitled 5s. and costs. Edward Thomas for being drunk was fined 20s. and costs. Daniel Beynon and James Sullivan were charged by P.C. 35 with beinsr drunk and fighting in Jockey-street, were each fined 20s. and costs or 14 days'imprisonment. Catherine Davies for being drunk and riotous in Jockey-street, was fined 5s. and costs. TUESDAY. [Before Mr. J. C. Fowler and Mr. Thomas Phillips.] ASSAULT.-Eliz:lbeth Dunsford, a resitIent of Argyle- street, was fined 5s. and costs for striking Tammy Phillips ill the face when she called at defendant's house to look for 6 £ d. which defendant's lodger owed her. ANOTHER ASSAULT.—Catherine Davies charged Mary Mavin with assaulting her by throwing a large stone-into her house. The evidence showed that both defendants were to blame, and the Bench dismissed the case. DRUNKENNESS.—Sarah John, a married woman, charged by P.C. 12 with being drunk and riotous at Landore, was dismissed, the magistrates talcing into consicleration that her husband had ill-used and exasperated her that morning. David Evans, for being drunk and incapable in High-street, was fined 5s. and 3s. Gd. costs. Poop ELLEN SWEENEY.—Ellen Sweeney was again charged with being drunk. The landlord of the Crown Inn, Strand, stated that defendant carne to his house early on the previous morning and was served with a cup of coffee and 2d. worth of whiskey at the expense of a person who happened to be in the house at the time. Subsequently, after drinking a considerable number of glasses of whiskey, she refused to leave the house, and had to be removed by the police. The Bench sentenced her to 14 days' imprisonment. WEDNESDAY. [Before Mr. Chares Bath and Mr. Leonard Williams.] NEGLECTING TO MAINTAIN HIS PARENTS.—Thomas Casey, a patent fuel shipper, aged 24, was charged with neglecting to maintain his father and mother, who thereby became chargeable to the common fund of the Swansea Union. Mr. J. C. Howell, one of the relieving officers, stated that defendant got 25s. per week in the employ of Messrs. Cory, Yeo, and Co., and that he might be in constant work if he liked. The Bench 01'- dered him to contribute 5s. per week towards the support of the old people. A SIMILAR CASE.—Three men, named John, David, and Joseph Morgans, brothers, were summoned by Mr. Bevan, relieving officer, for neglecting to maintain their father, who is afflicted with paralysis. The guardians would not take the old man into the house, because his sons were able to support him. The two younger sons got 24s. per week, and the eldest 30s. per week. The Bench ordered them to contribute 2s. each per week towards the maintenance of the father. STEALING A PORTMANTEAU.—Susan Meyrick, an un- fortunate, was charged with stealing a leather port- manteau, the property of W. H, Brown, Esq., and was remanded until Monday. It appears that on the 16th inst" while a young man named Turner was riding a horse towards Sketty, and bearing a portmanteau belonging to W. H. Brown, Esq., the horse became restive, and Turner was obliged to let the portmanteau fall on the road. On riding back some time after, the portmanteau could not be found. It was eventually found at a pawn- shop, and the prisoner was pointed out as the person who had pledged it. The case, as we have said, was remanded until Monday. DRUNKENNESS.—George Brodley, for being drunk and incapable in High-street, was fined 5s. and costs.—— Thomas Shannon, for being in a similar state in College- street, was fined the same amount.
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It has been suggested that Temple Bar should be pre- sented to one of our colonies. Surely our colonists have enough to do in looking after themselves. An express car, running on the Canadian Great Wes- tern Railway, was, on Friday, entered by five men, who gagged and bound the officials, aud decamped with 150,000 dollars, which was leing conveyed to Toronto. Mrs. Jnue Odger, sister-in-law of Mr George Odger, was, on Saturday nigtt, burned to death, in her own house, in London. The unfortunate woman's clothes were ignited by the accidental upsetting of a paraffin lamp. A garotter, who was sentenced to receive two dozen lashes has given to a newspaper reporter in Manchester a vivid account of his sensations while undergoing the punishment. The flogging conduced to his reformation, and he has no doubt whatever as to the deterrent effects of the lash. Steps are being taken at the India Office for gazetting out and according a higher honorary rank to all colonels and lieutenant colonela who will respectively attain their major-generalships and full colonelcies. The Birmingham Corporation intends to apply to Par- liament at the next Session for an Act to purchase the undertakings of the Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company and the Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Light Company. On Friday morning, tbe Newcastle magistrates fined a wholesale chemist and druggist, named Thomas Potts, of that town, £30 and costs, for having 100 gallons of Petro- leum on his premises, contrary to the provisions of the Petroleum Acts of 1871. Three railway accidents have occurred within the last two days. Near Bury a passenger train ran into a goods train; at Heywood a goods train came into collision with a pilot engine and some coal wagons and between Mal- vern and Ledbury a luggage train broke down in a tunnel. Considerable damage was done in each case, but no one was injured. A useful and much-needed invention has been patented —a fountain pen, which, by the pressure of the thumb on a. small rubber baC, projects a stream of ink through the holder—and into the face of the person who is looking over your shoulder while you are writing. French ladies have a knack of packing summer dresses which prevents their becoming crushed and wrinkled. They are never folded, but rolled in wrapping paper, and by this means their fresh and stiff appearance is preferred
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Another crisis in the S< uth VVjiles iron trad, h assed. The notices respecting the ten per cent. reou •: n the rate of w Iges expired on Saturday night, a. II were entertained that the men would refuse to ) work on Monday. But we are glad to learn that a rthfa, Dowiai-, Rhymney, Plymouth, and other they went to work as usual, and although diisatisfi ;h the reduced rate of pay, there is no likelihood. trike. The ironstone miners have also gone to work le re- duction. WHAT FRANCE HAS DONE FOR THE WOIU, lot all the errors and crimes of which that count been guilty can blot out the fact that ever since the Revo- lutionsheitiswho. on this side of the J, has chiefly lifted into the universal air those im, prin- ciples of human right to which M. Favre ap> as the final arbiters of all human policy. In this s, ''ranee has exercised a vivifying iufluen :e in the WII id s.ich as not even iingland, excellent as her practical e Ie has been, can boast, because England bas mad" 1. asser- tion of abstract principle such as quicken meral pulse of humanity, but has rather followed ies of local experiments, cautious, fragmentary, and. -ating, from want of faith in any higher standard th hat IS convenient for the day. If France, with her 2rcep- tion of the very elements of political right, ha :sessed self-control enough to abstain from demagog' olence and theatrical exaggeration, we might at ti .oment have seen Europe a hundred years in advanc o where she really stands. But merely to have uti great ideas is much. Germany within the region 01 It cshas conferrel1 no such service on the world. H" rk has been rather that of dull and harsh repression' 1 as a consummate drill sergeant, with not even the ibition to be anything better, she yet stands before th ations. M. Favre, in pleading the cause of his own coio.. y, was asserting principles in which all countries :t, qually interested and his moral tone was as far sup" to any which his adversary has ever evinced as the ir icts of philanthropy are higher than the promptings selfish- ness.— CasseWs History of the War between F: ■ nee and Germany. THE METHODISTS.—The Wesleyan Method Com- mercial Record and Year Book, publishe at the Wesley-tn Canference Office a few days ago, H:, which now appears for the first time, gives the nn.iber of Methodist members throughout the world as • '592,768, those on trial not included, nor the large .nber of hearers, Sunday Scholars, and communicants w are not members. The number of ministers appear to 23,514. The highest Ecclesiastical Court, as well as oe only legislative body, in the Wesleyan Methodist o .nection is the annual Conference, instituted in accordance with Wesley's "Deed of Declaration," bearing datp February 28, 1784, and called "the Yearly Contemn of the People called Methodists." It consists of 100 ministers, all of whom must be "preachers and ex'oun lers of God's Holy Word." The second is the distric meeting which was instituted at the first Conference after Wesley's death, is in reality a committee ofth. Confer- ence, and is generally held in May for the puipose of bringing under careful revision and inquiry everything connected with the work in the different circui s of the district. In September there is held a financial district meeting, which is restricted to the administration of the temporal affairs of the district. The minor district meetings (instituted in 1793), mixed district meetings, in which laymen sit, as in the financial and during part of the May meeting (instituted in 1794), and special district meetings have to do mostly with cases of discipline or emergency of any kind. The chief local or circuit court is the quarterly meeting, which was appointed by the Conference of 1749. A special circuit meeting may, however, under particular circumstances, be held. The weekly meetings of the leaders of the classes with the ministers and stewards have to do with the officers of tbe society or sub-division of the circuit to which it belongs. The local or lay preachers hold their meetings every quarter in each circuit. The earliest record of such a meeting is found in the Conference minutes of 1796. These, with trustees' meetings, &c., and the duties of the various officers of Methodism, form one of the most interesting parts of the work. The following table of numerical statistics will be of interest to many persons outside Methodism. It extends only to Great Britain :—351,623 full members, 25,032 on trial 23,445 class leaders; 13,679 local preachers; 6,201 chapels, 1,3S2 preaching rooms, 1,706,,335 sittings 5,797 Sunday schools 110,326 Sunday school teachers, of whom 82,247 are members of the Methodist Society 687,811 Sunday scholars, of whom 45,752 are members 814 day scholars, 68,248 boys, 47,845 girls, and 58,198 infants. The finan- cial statistics are equally interesting, it being borne in mind that only those of Great Britain are given, also that the table contains only the contributions to the Connexional funds Kingswood School, &c.. £8,280; Chapel Fund, £9,124; education, £7,151; theological institutions (not including ministers' subscriptions) £7,662; Worn Out Ministers' Fund, £13,227; home missions, £25,190; foreign missions, £106,7ti7. Under the heading of departments it is stated that the entire receipts for foreign missions were for the year £167,995. In addition to the above home missions, in which only clerical missionaries are employed, there are in different towns lay mission societies, one of which employs 22 missionaries and deaconesses but the income of these is not given. In connexion with chapel building it is stated that within the last 20 years the moneys actually contributed towards the removal of debts and the cost of new erections reached the sum of £3,915,218. The debt paid off during that period by grants, loans, and local efforts are reported as £1,018,566. In the past year sanction has been given to the erection of 129 chapels, at an estimated cost of £214,955, and of 21 schools at a cost of £11,599. The Metropolitan Chapel Building Fund is also noticed also such semi-connexional institutions as Wesley College, Sheffield, Wesleyan College (Taunton), Methodist College (Belfast), Wesleyan Connexional School (Dublin). The work purposes also to give from year to year obituary notices of leading Methodist laymen who have died during the year, bnt this being the first issne the accounts ge (wwwhfttfWther baek than 12 montht.
THREE KI-SE-i OF FAREWELL.…
THREE KI-SE-i OF FAREWELL. Three, only three, niv darling, Separate, solemn, slow Xot like the swift an joyous ones We used to know, M hen we kissed because we loved each other, Simply to taste love's sweet, And lavished eur kisses as the summer L'ivrih3s h"at But as they kiss whoce hearts are wrung, When hope and fear are spent, And nothing: is left to give, except A sacrament '• First of the throe, my darling Is sacred unto pain We have hurt each other often, 1 NVCB III 'When we pine heevtse we miss each other, 11 And do n t understand the written words are much colder eye arid hand. I kiss thee, dear, all such pain Which we may goive or take"; 'k Buried, for1 :iven before it comes, ?V. For our love's sake. The second IdsS, my darling, Is fuH of joy's weet thrill We have blessed each other •Always, We always will. We shall re".ch until we feel each other, Beyond all time and space ;•. We shall listen till we hear each other ,ri. In everv place; 4. The enrtb is fnll of messengers. Which love sends to and fro; I kiss thee, darling, for all joy Which we shall know The last kiiS. ■ h my dirling— Mr lnve-T cannot see, ? 7 Through my tear?; as I remember Whatitmaybe. We may die and never see each other, Die with no time to give '■ • Any signs that our hearts are faithful To die, as live. Tokens of what they will n t see Who see our parting breath. Th>. one last k'ss. my darlin?, seals The sea! of death'" —Argosy.
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"LET rs TIIIVK OF TTTE FRIENDS THAT AS-E XEA R.' S'lgfe^ed by "Let it* Thi-^ of the FriewH that are Gone." LE" ns think of -the friend that are near,— A father with ten 'erest 11)ve. W'o's watched os aTid will, there's no fear. Ti'l he sha'l be tnken above. II eager, in childhood's first days. He r-anght the first words that we said Row rightly he guided our ways TTow e^rnestlv for us he prayed And Ps year to year rolls en, Then oh may he ever he dear And while 11 .t forgettinsr those jr-we, Let us think of the friends ire near. Let us think of the friends that are nrar.— A nvther who nu'sed ns from birth; Who sh 'd for us many a tear. And thought us unequalled in worth. For those that were to her so dear Of troubles she's borne a fair share Her future surely might eVer By lessening her burthen of care. And as year to year rolls nll. Then oh may =he ever be dear: And while not forgetting those gone. L°t 115 think "f the friends that sire near. Lef ns iVdnk of the friends that are near,- A -ist'-r and brother, who sought To -I),ii-e ur sorrow and fear, Whih" others against- 1F have fought. We know what then for us have done.— Their kindness in I if,' we'll repay :— Not leaving until they are go-rut hat might be accomplished to-day. And :1S vear to ye-r rolls on. Then oh mav thev ever be dear: Ard while not forgetting tV-e gone, Let us tl.ink of the friends that are near. Mold. WALTER C. EATON".
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&r. Man is to man all kind of beasts a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox. a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decov. and a rapacious vulture.—bowleg. Aloderate speed is a sure he'p to all proceedings; where those thincrs which are prosecuted with violence of endeavour or de- sire. either succeed not. or continue not. Bi-xhnv TTnlL Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, thi^ is mv criterion of goodness, and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity. — B/trnx. Nature has the appearance of greatness to man in proportion as she is veiled in mystery and the ignorant are prone to put faith in everything that borders on the marvellous.— A. Von II,hoJ.lt. The worst inconvenience of asmall fortune is. that it will not admit of inadvertency. Inadvertency, however, ought to be placed, at the head of most m n's yeirly accounts, and a sum as regularly allotte 1 to it nsto any other al'tirle,-S7wn..dfme. The whole tendency of empirical art is to bury itself in technicalities, and to place its prize in particular short cuts and mysteries kno-vn only to adopts to surprise and astonish by results, but conceal processes. The character of science is the direct contrary. Tt delights to lay itself open to inquiry and is not, satisfied with its conclusions, till it can make the road to them broad and beaten; and in its applications it pre- serves the si me character: its whole aim being to away all technical mystery, to illuminate eveiy ,¡c,rk recess, with a view to improve them on ration vl rinciples.—Sir -T. Hemoh&l. Mm has his instincts, even in common with the inferior animals, and many of these are the germs of some of the best feelings of. his nature. What better illustration, or more benutf'n! instance than the ston/v or maternal instinct. But man's instincts are elevated anil ennobled by the moral ends and purposes of his being. H" is not destined to be the siave of blind impulses, a vessel purpose'ess, unmeant. He is ^con- st'tnteil by his moral and intelligent wi'l to he the first freed being, the ma3t r-work an 1 the end of nature but this free- dom and high office can only co-exist with fealty and devotion to the <ervic.; of truth and devotion. Joseph A. Green. The grand doctrine that every human eir.g shoul" have the means of self-culture, of progress in knowledge and virtue, of health, comfort, and happiness, of exercising the powers and affections of a man—this is slowly taking its place as the high- est social truth. That the world was made for all and not for a few that society is to care for all that no human being shall perisl1 Hut through his own fault that the great end of government is to spread a shield over the rights of all these propositions are growing into axioms, and the spirit of them is coming forth in all the departments of life.—Charming. Amongst the other signs of progress of our enlightened age, a very remarkable one is the habit, now become a law, for everybody with any pretensions to the rank of a gentleman to live in the same style, or at 'east with as close an imitation as he can of it, as persons of large fortune. Men like myself were formerly satisfied with giving their friends a little sherry and port at dinner, continued afterwards till some considerate friend begged "as a favour'' for a glass of punch. Now we start with Madeira after the s-up. if you haven't had oysters and O'hablis before, hock with your first entree, and champagne afterwards, graduating into Chambertin with" the roast," and Paequarete with the dessert, claret, at double the price it costs in Ireland, closing the entertainment. Why, a Duke cannot do more! -Charles Lever. Sounding on a bar—Rapping for drinks. Nothing comes home so much to a man as an unsettled bill. Mock no man for his snub-nose, for you never can tell what mav turn lip. Twilight is but day getting black in the face from drinking nightshade. Said Pat, "Talx ware wid ye find a modern house that has lasthe 1 so long as the ancient ? n „ What is the difference between a belle and a burglar .—One carries false locks, and the other false keys. The young laly who received one thousand pounds damages for a kiss is reported as spoiling for some more damages—of course not for more kisses. COOKIANA.—And now, tell me why you left your last place? —I will tell you that, ma'am, when you have told me why you parted with your last cook.—Punch. "Digby. will you take some of this butter? Thank you, ma'am. I'm a Good Templar. Can't take anything strong," re- plied Digby. "Do you like the piano?" some one asked Theophile Gau- tier.—" I prefer it to the guillotine," was the reply of the poet. A baby is said to have inherited the eyes and nose of his father, but the cheek of his uncle, who is an insurance agent. Husband said the wife of a young clergyman, read me one of your sermons. I feel dreadfully wakeful to-night, and 1 wish to sleep." A coffin-maker, having apartments to let, pasied his bills upon the coffias in the window, announcing Lodgings for single gentlemen." Indianapolis has the champion kind hearted man. He cut down his plum-tree, loaded with fruit, becuse he feared that his neighbours' children might get hold of the green fruit and be made ill. A country physician has had his portrait painted, and a local art c it:c declares that you can feel saws and things rasping over your uones, and taste calomel, blue pill, and quinine as you look at it. What sustained our revolutionary sires in their struggle for liberty ? asked a pedagogue of one of his pupils, and was astonished when he answered, Their legs, sir." Why is it complimentary to call a man a son of a gun?"—Be- cause it is well known that no gun is good for anything unless it descends in a straight line from the stuck. Tom wrote to John from the country, that he was "con- stantly employed in breaking colts." John wr> te in reply, that all he had to say about it was-" save the pieces." A woman in Kentucky was divorced from her husband, mar- ried another man, was divorced from him, remarried her first husband, and is now seeking another divorce from him. A correspondent writes from a Swiss town:— was much surprised on looking ever a visitors' book at the inn to find that under the heading Occupat'on,' two German girls had written —' Looking for a husband. Parishioner, to his clergyman :— I suppose you don't know much about Stock Exchange matters, or I'd ask you what bonds a man with money should be most shy of."—Clergyman "011, I can tell you that—vagabonds." An inquiring man thrust his fingers into a horse's mouth to see how many teeth it had, and the horse closed its mouth to see how many fingers the man had. The curiosity of each was fully satisfied. A clas that hall been drilled thoroughly in the masculine and feminine terminations were asked to define a fort. It's a place for men soldiers," was the reply. — "And what is a for- tress ? "—" A place for women soldiers," was the prompt re- sp mse. When George II. was once expressing his admiration of General Wolfe, some one observed that the General was mad. —"Oh, he is mad, is he ?" said the king, with great quickness. "Then I wish he would bite some other of my generals." v A perplexed Schneider who had made a garment for a youth, and found himself unable to dispose of the superfluous fullness which appeared when trying it on the young candidate, de- clared, vociferously, De coat is goot. Is no fault of de coat. De poy is too tin." At a certain bathing place lately, a laay was about to sing her favourite piece to a select party, when one of the company whispered to a neighbour, "You may say of Madame X., as they say of Alboni, that she has swallowed a llIghtmgale. "Yes," was the equally low reply but you must add that she has not digested it." A New Orleans paper has the following :—" The young man who came into this office yesterday, sat down on a box and immediately afterwards jumped up with an unearthly yell, and fled from the office, is requested to bring back four brass-head tacks that were standing on the box when he took his seat. No questions will be asked. When Dr. Johnson courted Mrs. Porter, whom he afterwards married, he told her he was of no mean extraction that he had no money, and that he had an uncle—hanged The lady, by way of reducing herself to an equality with the doctor, re- plied that, she had no more money than himself; and that, though she had not a relation hanged, she had fifty who de- served hanging. In one of our law courts a witness was testifying regarding his connection with a case where. offers had been made him to assault a man, but he declined the job. With great solemnity the counsel asked, as if anticipating a high moral reason for the refusal, why the witness did not commit the assault.— Well, sir," was the candid reply, I am a little lame, and I waa &fraid the police would catch me." ;tIIII
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Mr. Baird, who recently gave half a million sterling to the Established Church of Scotland, spoke at Hertford the other day, and is reported to have said "Every man here must know that there are ministers in the Estab- lished Church living in a state of veiled infidelity. Not many of them preach it, but some of them have the cour- age to do so, flaunting their infidelity in the face of the public in the shape of published sermons, but none of the Presbyteries have the courage to call them to account. This is the cancer that will eat up the vitals of the Church, and bring about her dissolution sooner than anything else, unless it is put down." A large and enthusiastic meeting in favour of the Per- missive Bill was held on Monday evening in the Philar- monic-hall, Liverpool. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P.. who was one of the speakers, replied to the recent speech of Mr. Holker, Q.C., at Preston. He said that the pub- licans must feel that there was danger when they got such a great gun as the Solicitor-General to defend them. He (Sir Wilfrid) would tell them what was the little game at Preston. Mr. Holker went down to speak in favour of Mr. Cross and his Bill, and if all went well Mr. Cross and the Government would say, There is a defence of our policy," while if all went wrong they would say, Oh, it was only that fool Holker that made the speech," Mr. Holker was not very happy in his defence of Mr. Cross's Bill. He dismissed that absurd piece of legislation giving power to magistrates to say that this was a populous place and that that was not, with the joke that, the most popu- lous place he was in was when joining the majority in the lobby of the House of Commons against the PermissiveBill. He (Sir Wilfrid) thought that a good remark, because the Act of Parliament said that a populous place should be decided on by the magistrates by reason of the density of its population. (Loud laughter.) BURIED ALIVE.—A shocking case of premature inter- ment is reported to have taken place in the burial ground of the Jewish community of Brody, in Gallicia. The Jews, as is well-known, are prohibited keeping corpses in their houses more than one day, and in accordance with this prohibition, deceased Israelites are generally buried about twenty-four hours after death. A Jewish lady, the wife of a wealthy merchant residing at Brody, had been a long sufferer, and was interred the day following her de- mise. After the week of mourning prescribed by the Jewish law had passed over, the bereaved husband was animated by the singular desire of opening his wife's grave that he might gaze upon her once more. The Jewis Rabbi granted him permission, and the widower was horrified to find, when the coffin was opened, the shroud in which the corpse was attired completely covered with blood. There were all the signs of a pre- mature interment and a fearful struggle for life. A COLLIER'S DOG. —A curious and authentic story has come to the knowledge of the Manchester Courier's Sheffield correspondent regarding the manner in which colliers' greyhounds (used in rabbit coursing) are kept. A Sheffield collier took his greyhouud, value £40, to a veterinary surgeon for his advice. He told the surgeon that he thought the dog was not right, for she would not eat her mutton the day afore, and that morning she wouldn't hev her eggs and port wine." When she refused her breakfast of eggs and port wine he was sure she was wrong. On being asked what he gave his dog, the collier said that he bought for the dog every week two nice little legs of Welsh mutton, and when she could not be tempted by a slice out of the middle of a leg he became uneasy. Fresh eggs and wine—some favoured sherry, he preferred port—were the best things for these dogs. The veterinary surgeon pronounced the dog to be mad, and its owner confessed that she had bitten several human beings and A number of other dogs. The collier, on being asked to inform the persons bitten and the owners of the dogs, replied—"Nay, not I. Theymunfoinditout." The collier earned 50s. to 60s. a week, and his wife and children had to rest oantent with any scraps that the dog might be fed and pampered tike himself.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY IN WALES.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY IN WALES. An examination of an official document issued within the last few days, show that the number of persons charged with the offence before the magistrates or igland and Wales, in 1873, was 182,941, very nearly n :Je the number so charged iu 1863. The increase s been chiefly in the last six of the intervening ten J'e-rs. In 1867 there were 100,357. In 1873, the first year under the new Intoxicating Liquor Act, instead of a cont ■ auance of the increase of 10,000 or 11.000 in a year, tl., umber increased to 182,941, an increase of nearly 3-0 over the preceding year. There are no means of oi. uoating the increase among its many causes, whether hig! ■ wages, stricter police supervision, or other causes. L worth notice also that the increase is more among ) than women. In 1867 the number proceeded against v. >• 74,860 men and 25,497 women, or three men to one woman, the number being little more than one-fourth of i whole number; but in 1873 the numbers were 141,232 .cn and 41,70'J women. In 1867 being 400 more than fourth of the whole number, but in 1873 4000 less. should be explaiued that strictly speaking the return .1 es not show the number of persons proceeded against, "ut the proceedings, so that an habitual drunkard na y have appeared before the magistrates more than o, The following are the particulars relating to Wales Glainoryanshire.—Duriug the year there o 3855 persons proceeded against. Of these 3495 were ivicted and 360 discharged. In the preceding year tL>- re were 2650 persons proceeded against. Sivansca.—During the year there were 685 pi ns pro- ceeded against. Of these 50\) were convicte ud 176 discharged. In the preceding year there were 4. ■ ■ oersons proceeded against. Cardiff.—During the year there were 3!: persons proceeded against. Of these 328 were conv ,d and 69 discharged. In the preceding year there ore 181 persons proceeded against. Nzath.—During the year there were 210 p> < ns pro- ceeded against. Of these 156 were convict i aid 54 discharged. In the preceding year there were 1 crsons proceeded against. Breconshire.—During the > -,v there were 3. 1 persons proceeded against. Of these 370 were convict nd 21 discharged. In the preceding ve.ir there were .arsons proceellee1 against. Brecon. During the year hera were 57 p: a pro- ceeded against. Of these 41 were convic' id 13 discharged. In the preceding year there were orsons proceeded against. Cardiganshire.—During ti*> vear there were eisons proceeded against. Of these 263 were convic' :1d 33 discharged. In the preceding voar there were oersons proceeded against. Carmarthenshire.—During the year there -e 446 persons proceeded against. Of these 418 wen evicted and 28 discharged. In the preceding year t. were 3ù2 persous proceeded ag.!Îllst. Carmarthen. —During the v-r there were ersons proceeded against. Of these 28 were convii and 11 disch:u gcd. In the preceding year there 26 p os pro. ceeded against. Pembrokeshire.—During the ear there were o 'ersons proceeded against. Of these 1:3 were convic and 14 discharged. In the precedii-g there were 72 1 is pro- cee, ¡, II ;1 gainst. Haverfordwest.—During the year there were oersons proceeded against. Of these 43 were convi and 2 discharged. In the preceding year there were persons proceeded against. Tenbu.- During the year there were 52 p is pro- ceeded against. Of these 49 were convicte 3 dis- charged. In the preceding yar there were arsons proceeded against. Badnonshire. —During the car there were 1 rsons proceeded against. Of rho-r 93 were conv and & discharged. In the preceding year there w, r7 pro- ceed' d against. Caruarvonshire.l)\iT:\x\z tin year there WI" wiper- sons proceeded against. Of se 869 wereco edand 62 discharged. In the preci ling year the. re 591 proceeded against. PtvKhe.'i.—During the year ■ here were 22 ,s pro- ceeded against. (}f these 21 were convic; id one discharged. In the precedi- year there v pro- ceeded :v"ain.t. Angtesca. — During the yea there were •< arsons proceeded against. Of the,p 95 were conv, id 25 discharged. In the preceding year there w > pro- ceeded against. Denbighshire.—During the y-ar there were, ersons proceeded against. Of thes. 456 were convi o nd 38 discharged. In the preceding year there we :;4 pro- ceeded against. Flintshire.—During the year there were 1 ersons proceeded against. Of the*e 665 were convi. • ,nd 24 discharged. In the preceding year there Wt, 3 pro- ceeded against. Merionethshire.—During he year there wer- 7 irsons proceeded against. Of these 141 were com md 6 discharged. In the preceding year there < pro- ceeded against. Montgomeryshire.—During the year then e 405 persons proceeded aga.inst. Of these 388 w o .-icted and 17 discharged. In the preceding year th, re 340 proceelled against.