... BRISTOL.. TIT3 DEAF AND DUMB OF BRISTOL AND NEIGHBOUR- HOOD, to the number of 00, were treated by the Rev ;W. J. Mayers and bis friends, in tlie vestry adjoining City-road Chapel, on Friday evening, Feb. 1st, with all excellent tea. Grateful and cheerful faces greeted the eyes of the visitors, and those Idndly waited on them at the tables, After tea the company retired to the large schoolroom ...

... ECHOES OF THE WEEK, [CONTRIBUTED BY PETElt I'LAYI-AIR. ] Those who have taken an interest in Prophecy, must have followed recent events in the East anxiously, for it has long been predicted that the Turk would fall, as indicated in the eleventh chapter of Daniel. The pro- phecy, to my mind, has been realised with marvellous exactitude. Let me quote from verse 40 (chapter xi.):— 43. And at the ...

... THE SINGIJUR DEATH AT THE CARDIFF POLICE-STATION. Early on Sunday morning a man, who was believed to be a private of the 41st Regiment, was found by the Caroiff police in state of insensibility, supposed to pro- ceed from drunkenness, in Mill-lane, Cardiff. He was conveyed to the police station where it was discovered that lie was dead, as has been already reported. The cir- cumstances ...

... ADOLYGIAD AH LYFRAU. Hancs gan Dcifydd Movganwg.—Bu y tes- tun hwn yn gystadleuol yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1861, pan y dyfarnwyd y wobr i'r awdwr, Oddiar y pryd hwnw y mae efe wedi ilafurio yn dJlrfawr i heh aethu a pherifeiihio y gwaith, fsl erbyn hyn y mae yn ffurfio cyfrol faintiolus a hardd, yn cael ei lutfliiurno gan amryw o arluniau ardderchog, Y mae eiJieu mwy o wcithiau or natur ...

... SUMMARY. The Queen left her Highland home on Thurs- day morning, and journeyed to Edinburgh that night. Her Majesty intends staying at Holyrood till this (Saturday) morning, at nine o'clock, when the Royal family will take their departure for Bangor, North Wales, via the Carlisle and Lon- don and North Western railways. The Royal party are expected to accomplish the distance (206 miles) in ...

... HO-USE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 24. IONIAN ISLANDS.—Earl GREY having inquired when a copy of the commission under which Mr. Gladstone had undertaken his mission to the Ionian Islands would be laid .before Parliament, the Earl of Derby objected to the promulgation of a document which might, he remarked, provoke a premature debate upon the whole question, which was not yet ripe for discussion. ...

... imeral ptoi The select committee appointed to prepare estimates of the charge of the disembodied militia of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 1st of April, 1859, to the 31st of March, 1860, have estimated the number of men for 1859-60 at 103,644, and the cost at £462,860, as against 91,003 men, and £ 432,900. The second and last concert of the artistes of the Drury-lane Opera was given on ...

... NOTE the first having been sounded by the Rate- payers' Committee, a sudden commotion has been got up in the North Ward. Three candidates are in the field already. Mr. James Pride asks to be re-elected, and Mr. W. Nell and Mr. John Bird declare their intention to test the feelings of the burgesses. Mr. Bradley, whose term of office expires this year, does not intend coming forward again; and ...

... Steam-Tug for Sale. TO be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, Litfht Sixty j-1,. A fourths of and in the well-known powerful Steat*-tng, STORM KING, now plying in the Port of Cardiff. The Siorm King was built about fifteen months ago by a celebrated sti am- boat builder at North Shields, and is now in most excel- lent working trim. Her engines are 54-horse pewgr, and notwithstanding the late scarcity of ...

... On Wednesday evening the mournful intelli- gence was received, in Cardiff, by telegraph, that this most noble lady had died suddenly at Edin- burgh. Those who remember that the late Marquis died suddenly, and also that Lord James Stuart, his Lordship's brother, was in an equally unexpected manner visited by death, will feel how painful must these visitations be to the distin- guished family ...

... A correspondent of the Bombay Gazette, April 18th, writes:— I have now given you all I can at present glean concerning the celebrated rebel chief, Tantia Topee, whose military skill and ability were worthy of better troops in a better cause. I suppose his charge, proceedings at his trial, and statement will ultimately be given to the public for their information. The execu- tion was announced ...

... ltl WILLETT'S SPEECH AT THE INQUIRY. ^ilW?r Edition we gave an epitome of Mr. s addressed before the Inspector, but as there Plbl]0^ P°*pts in it which will bear extending, we ^is week in an enlarged form. fose t a(- the close of the case for the defence, ,° and spoke for upwards of an hour. He 0f „ e1.ad been most unfairly placed by the board Stan/I'lllans a ^se position. He had no right to ...