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appeared indifferent to his nomination as G.C.B. (" I cannot well decline what the Queen has given me "), and placidly agreed to the coat-of-arms so enthusiastically advocated by his old friend of Muckee days, Lloyd of Brynestyn. In June, 1843, he married again, but, while ill-health made difficult his last months as Envoy, he found time to draw up for Ellenborough a plan of campaign should the threatened hostilities between Oude and Nepaul break out. By the end of the year it was evident that he would have to leave India, and so after an official banquet at Calcutta, where he delivered a last warning regarding the security of the country, he set sail for Capetown, accompanied by Lady Nott and his daughters. It was his intention to spend some time at the Cape, but a worsening in his condition compelled him to sail for home. The party landed at Falmouth in 1844, and had the novel experience of a train journey to London. It was his ill-fortune to be prevented from attending the banquets in his honour, for he could move only with difficulty, and on the advice of his doctor he set off for Wales. At Neath he addressed the assembled townsfolk from the home of his childhood, the Ship and Castle," and while regretting that he had forgotten his Welsh, promised to make good the defect before he spoke to them again. At Carmarthen he was overcome with weakness and emotion at his reception. He made as if to address the crowd from the steps of his brother's house in Picton .Terrace, faltered, and the doors closed on Nott's last public appearance. With the birth of the New Year he died, and five days later, on January 6th, 1845, the Mayor, Aldermen, Oddfellows, Ivorites, and many others, who but a little while before had marched in procession to greet him, now adorned with scarves of black, followed his coffin which was lowered into the grave in St. Peter's Church by veterans of the 41st Regiment who had served with him at Candahar. Job's Well" had lost its distinguished tenant. Wales for the World By J. WILLIAMS HUGHES. PEACEFUL prosperity, when it does come, will come to those people and places ready to help themselves. There is probably no region in our part of the world with more varied physical attractions than North Wales; and I feel fairly sure that there is no region about which so little is known by so many people. This is, to a great extent, due