... PaUmtcaL TT'i'jc.n Pn'tti. t'f new n-wtary treiand, has arrivtm ± lJuoiifi. A warm contest is expected at Droitwicb, where Sir John Pakington is opposed by Mr Corbett. A contest has not taken place here isr a quarter of a century. Sir A. Fairbairn, Mayor of Leeds, has resigned that office, and come forward to contest the borough. He is the third Liberal candidate. Mr Cole, Q.C., has-cet a ...

... The Bombay mail arrived on Saturday, bringing ad- vices to the 1st. Most of the News has been anticipa- ted by telegraph. The Indian papers give accounts of an extraordinary fl )od which has been experienced iu the north of India-in Ghurwal-owing to the over- flowing of the Aluknanda and Berai rivers. In Ahmedabad alone, ten thousand houses are computed to have been destroyed, involving a loss ...

... CONCERT.—On Monday evening, the 28th ult., a grand miscellaneous concert was given ia the Vane Hall, by Mr Inglis Bervon, the organist of St. Michael's Church, Aberystwith. The concert, which was under the patronage of Earl and Lady Vane, was largely and fashionably attended. Mr Bervon, who presided at the pianoforte, and in the course of the performance sang several good basso songs, was abJy ...

... The Wrexham Advertiser complains bitterly of the apathy of the Town Council in relation to the Agri- cultural Show and other matters of local interest. Riotous attempts have been made in Sligo to prevent the shipment of potatoes for Glasgow. The police had to escort the carts which brought them to the vessel. A shoemaker and his wife, named Brookes, have been sent to gaol from the Central ...

... Few of out readers In Aberystwith, we fancy, will need to ask the reasons why a fresh paper is started in their important and thriving town. They have felt the want of a good local journal with space enough at its command to report as folly as the particular im- portance of each case, or the public interest, demands, all the events of the week in the town and neighbour- hood, and with fidelity ...

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... A SHROPSHIRE CLERGYMAN ON THE IRISH CHURCH. The following letter, headed Freedom for the Irish Church, appeared in last week's Guardian Sir,-It is plain we shall have to fight hard for this. Many quiet Churchmen, who have been unable to join in the howl against Mr Gadstone, believing in his honestyaun. in his grasp of the Church's true spiritual character, and who have refrained from signing ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT AT A COAL PIT. ELEVEN MEN KILLED AND FOURTEEN INJURED. On Wednesday morning last an accident of a most serious character and attended with fatal results occurred at the Green Pit, Ruabon. The pit belongs to the New British Iron Company, and is one of the largest and most extensive workings in the neighbour- hood. The works adjoin the Great Western Railway from Shrewsbury to ...

... DENBIGHSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The first prize for main ploughing at Wrexham, last week, was awarded to William Jones, servant at Irs Jones's of Hafod, near this town. The plough was of the making of Mr John Owen, smith, Llandri -o.twho has on a great many occasions been successful at the ploughing matches. In these facts we have o-oof of the utility of our local ploughing matches, and ...

... THE MERIONETHSHIRE ELECTION.—MR D. WILLIAMS'S CANDIDATURE. The electors of the county of Merioneth have now a great opportunity afforded them of decisively assert- in ...

... Accidents and Offences. A Jew tailor at Leeds has been fined for keeping his workpeople employed on Sunday. A boy sixteen, apprenticed to a gilder in Paris, hung himself with his waist-belt in the water-closet a few nights back. He objected to run errands. On Friday night a pilot cutter was run down in the Channel, by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Syria. The cutter sank immediately, and ...

... THE NEW CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL.—-Mr Williams, the minister of the Congregational Churches at Clarwch and Borth, has received the handsome donation of fl50 towards this new chapel, from Mr Morley, the Liberal candidate for Bristol. Mr Morley is well known in England and Wales for his great liberality, of which, among other numerous places, Aberystwyth has had substantial proof. Mr Williams is ...