... HIRWAUN COMMON.—Owing to the absence of other ground a large number of houses and cot- tages have been built during the last twenty years on the Common, both at Hirwaun and Aberdare. Something like £30,000 is thus in- vested; and within the last few years about one hundred and fifty huts have sprung up between Hirwaun and Aberdare, giving the traveller a picturesque idea of an infant republic. ...

... SATURDAY. — J. C. Fowler, and David Evans, Esqrs.) FAMILY QUARRELS.—Margaret Michael was charged with breaking the windows of Ann Samuel's dwelling house. The ladies were cousins and consequiently considered themselves privileged to speak their minds freely to each other. The complainant thought the defendant ought to keep more at home, and the other tliouj^it that if her fair cousin attended ...

... On the best authority, the Press gives the total loss to the conservatives in the borough elections at four (these are purely accidental ), and in the counties from 15 to 20. The Economist classifies the changes in parliament as follows 49 conservatives have been supplanted by liberals 29 liberals have been supplanted by conservatives 10 Peelites have been supplanted by liberals; 45 ...

... MINCING LANE, MONDAY, APIUL 20. SUGAR.-In consequence oj the large quantities that will be submitted to public competition during the week, only limited purchases were made to- day for the home or foreign markets, and prices are scarcely sustained. Still stock remains less than last year, and deliveries are larger, but prices continue much above that time. The currency is for Mauritius very ...

... Scotland ELECTION OF SCOTTISH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS.—On Tuesday the election of sixteen peers to represent Scotland in the upper House of Parliament took place within the ancient picture gallery of Hclyrood Palace in presence of a crowded and brilliant assemblage of about 1,600 persons. The principal clerks of session officiated as the returning officers in place of the Lord Clerk Register ...

... The Moniteur de la Flotfe publishes some further de- tails relative to the war in China :— The Chinese, it is said, are at present making formidable military preparations, which are not to be deaphed. Since the attack on Canton, the Chinese have executed enormous works on the Pei-ho, a river which falls into the Yellow Sea, and by which a communication it maintained with Pekin. That river is ...

... ,?( -flul, Mum DAI)GORFFORIAD Y SENEDD A'I AMCAN. NID ydyw y bleidlais ar achos China yn ddim ond esgus dros ddadgorffoiiad v senedd. Y mae y gwir achos yn gorwecld yn ddyfnach. Yr oeddynt wedi pen- derfv uii appelio at y wlad cyn i'r bleidlais honogael ei rhoddi. Nid oedd dim vn eisieu ond cyfleusdra ffafriol i ddiddvmu Ts y Cyffredin, yr hwn a ragwelid na wnai ufuddhau i lywod;aeth Arglwydd ...

... zfffciriai a Aarrcbnaboebb tboweDbar. CAE3NARFOI, Mawrth 2alin. Yr oedd yma lawer o brynwyr a gwerthwyr. ond ni werthwyd ond ychydig o weuith. Owenith o 57s. i 59s.; baidd, o 38s. i 41s.; ceirch, n 21s. i 228., y chwarter. BANGOR, Mawrth 20fed. Yr oedd yma lawer o bryn- wyr a gwerthwyr. Ychydig oedd o ofyn am haidd a gwenith. GOwenith goreu cartref, o 63s i 56s.; haidd, o 36s. i 40s.; yr oedd ...

... PUSEYAETH A'S LLYWODRAETH. t) ER ein bod yn credu yn hollol nad oes gan y y llywodraeth, fel y cyfryw, un hawl i yimyryd a b rn chrefydd; eto gan ei 'od yn ymyryd a hi-gan - E, ei bod yn edrve arni ei bun fel cydwyybodfawr y a y- deyrnas, i'r hoii y dylai cydwybodau bychain y tj id deiliaid fod yn gwbl ddarostyngedig-gan fod a o E, wnelo a mnaterion crefyddol y wlad-gan mai hi b ir, sydd yn ...

... 111 VSBmSIAD n SVnDDrIP O DDEWISIAD MR. MOSTIN. In GWNAOD yr bysbysiad swyddol o'r etholiod hwn yn Fflint, -. A ddydd lau diweddaf. Yr oedd y Iluaws a yigynnullasant lo yn dyrfa fawr iawn, o bob rban o'r wlad. Ni wnaeth orid i n ychydig iawn o'r blaid Doryaidd eu hymddangosiad, ac nid !i - oedd Syr Stephen Glyise na Mr. Gladstone ao gael. Dy- wedid fbd y boneddwr olaf, yn chwerw a siomedig, a ...

... AN ENCOUNTER WITH HIGHWAYMEN, Ole peol id The journals of the department of the Oise an- the Y nounce that a desperate attack was made by highway. the, men, a few nights ago, on M. Fasquel, a gentleman thel 3i well known for his devotedness to the turf. After ar transacting business in the four market at Paris, M. m Fasquel left at a rather late hour in the evening to re- y, turn to Courteui), ...

... DINNER TO MB. BRUCE, M.P., AT MERTHYR. [BT OUK OWN REPORTER.] On Tuesday last a public dinner given to Mr. Brnrp, M.P. for Mertliyr, by » lar^o number of l>is cointiuient, collilratulatory of tiia lnvtujj been returned as the member of Parliament for that borounb for the second time. The repast, which was of a su-nptuous deser ptlon, wiis provided by th, worthy bost^of tne 15 us 11 Hotel, and ...