... GENERAL NEWS. Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, was attacked with paralysis at the Manchester Athenaum last week- Sir James is recovering. We are requested to state that there is no truth in the report that the Government intend to create three new Indian Bishoprics.— Times. It is stated in the Dublin Evening Post thst Lord Naas, the Chief Secretary, is to succeed Lord Elphinstone in the ...

... DAYI-S, BUOTHEKS, MERTHYil TYDIL. „ W\ Iron Bedstead Sole Agents — full 10 per cent be- lOr ■ v ■•■■■: -r „ low any person in Eares Floor Cloth. r v the Trade, SELLI.2 ...

... THE LATE LORD DUDLEY STUART. Thursday se'nnight being the fourth anniversary of the death of the late Lord Dudley Stuart, a meeting of the Polish Historical Society was held that day at Sussex- chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, to commemorate the loss of Poland's best friend and benefactor. In the absence from London of the President (Colonel Szyrma), the chair was occupied by the Vice ...

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... THE LATH REV. JOlIN EIGLES, A. M.—A memorial has been erected in the Bristol Cathedral, during the week, of this lamented gentleman, whose life was passed in this city, and who won the love of his fellow-citizens by his estimable, social qualities, and fame by his writings. The memorial consists of a plain mural tablet of Carrara marble, bearing a profile likeness of the deceased, and the ...

... > ESQUIRE, M.P. FOR HEREFORDSHIRE. On Sunday forenoon the funeral sermon of Mr. BOOXER BLAKBMORB was preached in Whitchurch parish church, to a very crowded congregation, the sacred edifice being filled in every part by persons whose exterior gave evidence of great respectability, and deep sympathy with the family of Velindra, in their late bereavement. The attention to the service was truly ...

... AMUSEMENTS FOR LO 1ST G- EYENIN G S. CHESSMEN, STEREOSCOPES AND SLIDES, DRAUGHTSMEN, GAMES AND PUZZLES, PLAYING CARDS, &e.. &c. J. j-j^oo b, FURNISHING and Fancy Show Rooms, High-street, Merthyr, Castle-street, Swansea, and Dark Gate, Carmarthen, has received a large variety of the above Articles, suited to the present Season. An entire new Sitock^offtloderatoivLamps^jds^ OVER COATS! TTT HO ...

... POETRY. AUTUMN. Why do ye droop to see the wither'd leaf ? Why do ye mouru to mark the fading flower ? Why ilotli 110ft melancholy o'er thee creep In quiet autumn hour? Is it that beanty has so short a reign ? And perfumes sweet thou canst 110 more inhale; It is within thy sinking heart thou feels't That loveliness is frail'! Well be it so—for truth is in the thought, All things are passing, ...

... Deviation of Parts of the authorised, Lire; Amendment of Acts. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Llynvi Vails y Railway Company will apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act to enable them to make the following devi- ations in their authorised Railway, all in the county of Gla- morgan, that is to say,— 1. A Deviation of the Main Line of Railway commencing at or near a point on the ...

... A CASUALITY AT —A very large iron steam, fillip, the ilellona, arrived a few days ago, chartered by the Tredegar Iron Company, to take rails to the Black Set. 011 entering the lock gates the bow came in con- tack with the end of an old pile, which made a larsre hole through the plates—fully five-eights of an inch thick. Unfortunately this was not discovered until about five hundred tons of ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE CARDIFF AND MERTHYR GTJARDIAX S!R,—Having h ...

... Snow has fallen in Strathdon, Banffshire, to the depth of 5% inches. An inexhaustible bed of pure rock salt has been disco- vered at Stansfutt, tieur Steitin. The funeral of Napoleon 1. has been taken to Boulogne. Mr. L. S, Magnus has been elected Mayor of Queens- borough, and is the first Jewish Mayor in the provinces. The man Council, who attempted to murder Inspector Budd, of the Woolwich ...