... FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1853. To discuss so vast and complicated a measure as an India Bill, involving the government of a country containing 150 millions of people under the rule of Great Britain, can scarcely be expected of a pro- vincial journal. To obtain the most superficial acquaintance with the subject would require an amount of time and investigation which few men would be found to bestow: ...

... DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—NEARLY TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST. News by the Asia lias been received that a vessel Lad arrived at New York, with the captain, iirst and second mates, and six of the crew of the bark William and Marv, which foundered on. the 3rd inst. at Storrey's Key, Bahamas Is!ands, with 170 passengers on board, uearly all of whom perished. The William and Mary (a Balti- more vessel) left ...

... LONDON MARKETS. CORN-MXCHANGE. MONDAY. At this morning's market there was a small show of wheat from Essex, and tbe quantity exhibited on the Kent stands was not by any meant large. Factors manife«teu no disposition to give way in their pretensions,and though the demand was not active, a fair clearance was made. at about the prices of Monday last. There was less inclination to buy foreign ...

... mimim What Mr. Bright said of Merthyr was totally misrepre- sented in the Timis and most of the other Loudon papers. He said that, when he was there six years ago, there was only one church and twenty chapels (he forgot Dowlais); but that now he had been informed that two new churches had been built and another wasin progress. LETTER FKOM H. A. BRUCE, ESQ., M.P. — We have just ieceived the ...

... [Before W. Williams, Esq., Mayor, and G. Phillips, Esq.] BILLETTDiG THE MILITIA. It having been arranged that the decision of the magis- trates should be given this day as to whether the keepers of public and beer-houoes, in the old town, should continue to provide accommodation for the militia men who had been transferred from the locality about the Docks to them, seve- ral of the interested ...

... SAINT MARY'S CHURCH. — This sptcious anil com- rtrodiou* fditit-e was well til led on Sunday last—several companies of the 41 Royal Glamorgan being present nil itiflux of visitors, in addition to the congre- gation that usually rr^eis here for Divine Worship. The j^e,v organ wag heard to great advantage ami, we be- lieve, tvnu universally admired for its richness of lone and c°inpa#3, 11 is ...

... THE CAMP AT CHOBHAU. — WOOLWICH, June 15. Twenty-two waggons, each drawn by lout horses, left the Royal Arsenal at 8 o'clock a.m. to-day, loaded with ammunition, and accompanied by an escort of loit Artillery, for Chobham-common, for the service of the troops encamped there. Seven women were Stowed to pioceed with each of the butteries of Royal Aitiilery when tbey matched from Woolwicii for ...

... SWITZERLAND.—Diplomatic relations have been re-established between Austria and Switzerland. M. de Buol declares that it was never his intention to break them off, but that M. de Karnicki was only for the moment recalled to Vienna. TURKEY.—A telegraphic message received at Paris via Trieste, and dated of the 31st of May, states the Count Nesselrode has arrived at Constantinople from Russia. ...

... LITERARY VARIETIES^ A Persian philosopher being asked by what method he acquired so much kuowtedge, he answered— By not being prevented by shame from asking questions when I was ignorant. The virtue which we gather from a fable or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us otl with pleasure, and makes us insensible ot the ...

... To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. SIR,— It appears that pugilism has become rather prevalent at Pontypridd of late. Ou Sunday week last, that den of the lowest of the low, called Llangana, pre- sented a most shameful scene; the thoroughfare was blockaded throughout the day with people who d'dighled in the use of their fists. Fighting was k'pt up without interruption from ...

... A HOG FOR THE NEW YORK EXHIBITION.—A monster liog, weighing 1,1091b., was lately shipped on board the steamer Arctic, on his way to the World's Fair at New Y,) r k. He was purchased by Messrs. R. Bugg and R. Stewart, of Niagara County, New York, for 200 dollars, from Mr. Hollister B. Thayer, of Troy, Walworth County, Wi.sconsio. His actual measurement was as follows:- Girth behind the ...

... On being shown into the room the magic circle was about being formed it consisted of twelve persons, eight of whom were young ladies. The table was a rosewood loo one, of the ordinary size and as the top would revolve indepen- dently of the pedestal or leg, to prevent this the former was tied by strong cords to each of the three claws. There were three or four medical gentlemen to witness thlt ...