... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. TEA-PARTIES.—Several religious bodies availed them- selves of Easter Monday to have tea-parties for the children of their Sunday-schools and among the number were the Welsh Wesleyans and English Baptists, both of whom entertained several hundred juveniles at their respective places. There was atsoanotherteapartyof greater pretentions at Adulam Chapel, having for its ...

... BLAINA. „ INSTRUCTION SOCIETY. — On Thursday evening, April i»! Noad' of London, gave a very interesting and ««tructive lecture on some of the Chemical Principles in- volved in the manufacture of iron. The various gases »ere commented on, and their properties exhibited to the audience m a number of experiments, all equally success- 5^? and a number of very beautilul diagrams showed the .0us ...

... When it was known that Admiral Dundas would have to enter the Black Sea, Captain Brock, an officer well acquainted with it, was sent out to the Admiral to assist in its navigation. The captain is related to some of the most distinguished families in Guernsey. The following is au interesting extract from a private letter from Cant. Brock to a relative in that island, and which was pub- lished ...

... NEWPORT WATCH COMMITTEE AND BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL CHAMBER, TUESDAY. Present-James Brown, Esq., mayor, in the chair, and Messrs. Latch, Burton, Townsend, Edwards, Mullock, Lewis, Wm. Williams, Turner, Jenkins, Iggulden, Bat- chelor, Rennie, Knapp, and Llewellin. It was stated that as the colliers at Risca were likely to resume work, at 2d. per ton rise, the police force spared from the ...

... A curious and interesting report has been prepared by Mr. Finlaison, the actuary of the National Debt-office, upon the subject of sickness and mortality among the male mem- bers of friendly societies in Eugland and Wales, as shown by the returns made by them to the Government for the five years 1846—1850. It appears that the proportion on the sick list in the course of a year is one in four, ...

... DEPRESSION OF THE FLAX TRADE.—In consequence of the war with Russia most of the flax mills in Scotland are going on short time. The manufacturers have more orders than they can execute, but for some time to come, until supplies are obtained from other quarters than those hitherto chiefly depended on, they cannot execute them. In consequence of this stoppage in the supplies of flax by Russia, ...

... THIS interesting document has made its way into the light. At any time worthy of perusal, it possesses a double inte- rest at the present season, when We see how plainly the present Emperor has been endeavouring to carry: out the deep ambitious plans of his great predecessor. The fol- lowing extracts are absolutely astounding at this moment:— We must take away as much territory as possible ...

... DEAfH OF MR. WALKlNSHAW OF ABERS-TCHAN. Deeply ile we regret to state, that this estimable gentle- man, whom, .on Wednesday eveitiag, after.the.dinner at the Sa2s»ons, we-saw m communication with his friends, full of health, animated, vigorous, and diffusing cheerfulness around him, met with an awfully sudden death on his home- ward journey, very shortly afterwards, by being thrown from Ms ...

... FRIDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE—BANKRUPTS Thomas Ashley, Coleman-street, Camberwell, licensed vic- tualler William Henry Dean, Fleet-street, auctioneer Desire Le blond, Soutbwark-bridge-road, hot manufacturer Henry AnUey and William Watson, Birmingham, drapers J-mes Ridden, Camborae, Cornwall, mercer Robert Roberts, Liverpool, tailor William Suicliffe, Eutietd, within Clayton-le-Moors, Lan- cashire, ...

... (Continued from our fourth page.) HOUSE OF LORDS.TUESDAY. Lord Beaumont asked the Earl of Clarendon whether he w*s *ble to bef°re Parliament any document or papers which would explain the slate of our relations with the German government. The Earl of Clarendon stated that a protocol had been signed at Vienna on Sunday last, the tenor of which was as sati>\factary as he could have anticipated. ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Accordiug to Constantinople mercantile letters of the 6th of April, Baron Bruck has issued orders to all Austrian ves- sel? to quit Constantinople. Probably the order relates to Austrian vessels of war, in order to avoid the importunities of the Turks that they should join the allied fleets ih the Black Sea. Russian ships of war were seen off Batoum on ...

... STRIKING A BLOW AT STRIKES, IN SPAIN. Our correspondence from Spain has recently furnished us with some description of the manner in which a certain proceeding of what, we fear, we must call a truly English character, has been conducted in that remarkable country. There has been a great strike at Barcelona. The trade of that famous city supports a large number of manu- facturing artisans, ...