... Tie members of this ancient and respectable order, belong- t) the Cardiff district having lately established a Widow an-I Jrplians' Fuud conceived the idea that they should be addiig greatly to that fund, if they got up a well regulated excursion to the fashionable little watering place Weston- supo-Mare. A trip was announced for Whit-Monday, and two team-boats, the Pilot and Ely were ...

... BRIDGEND RACES. These races came off on Ogmore Down, on MnndaY and Tuesday se'nnight, under the stewardship of the Hon- W. H. Wyndhsm Quin, Dunraven Cas le J. Nicholl Carne, Esq., D.C.L., Dimlands' Castle, and John COLA Nicholl, Esq., Merthyr Mawr House. The weather bei ng delightful, the attendance was numerous, whilst the field was large, and the sport first-rate, particularly on the first ...

... ^UIIOCRED APPROACHING MAHRIAGE OF H.R.II* PRINCE OF WALES.—The Prince of Wales, it is 0nfident]y stated, is going to marry Princess Alex- br i!na Prussia, daughter of Prince Albrecht, jn°i er the King. The nuptials are to lake place autumn of rext year, and all the preliminaries contract (so it is asserted) are already settled. 1) jj? Majesty the King of the Belgians, accompanied it n Higness ...

... LORD DJERBY ON THE MINISTERIAL DEFEAT. not HAe MAJESTY'S MINISTERS attended a banquet given at the Au Merchant Tailors' Hall, on Saturday evening. Sir J. has Palcington responded to the toast of the Navy, and the prr Earl of Derby to that of Her Majesty's Ministers. 'His soc Lordship, after a few introductory remarks, said:- If at DiE any time in a man's political life these manifestations of ...

... THE WAU. THlE BIATTLES OF PALESTRO. TuniN, Ma~7 31.-A fresh victory has been gained by Oar top.At 7 o clock this morning 253,030 Austrians endeavoure to retaketh position of Paleatro. The King, commanding the fourth division inVerson, and General Cialdini at the heal of the ~r- 3d Regiment of Zouaves, resisted thes attack for a COnSidle.,ble Ir time, and then, after having successfully ...

... DESPATCH OF FOREIGif MAILS FROM ABERDEEN. DEaSucATIONe. A:merlca--UnhtedSiates, Cabforia, and British North Anerica (by British Packet via Liverpool) . . Dltto-(by U. S. 1iacket, via South- ampton) .J Australia, Van Diemor,ns Land, New South Wales, and Man.). ritius, tia Southamption ) Ditto, vi' Marsei`es .. ! . BshanmasandHlavana, viaNewYork M elgtum ...

... THE WARt. co TnE military genius of Napoleon III., whatever it may afl prove in the end, is clearly of a very different kind el from that of the Great Napoleon, His tactics are of ap very deliberate and prosaic sort-as much so as those of the Austrians, who seem to do everything by rule ml and precedent, and sit down contented if they have it gone scientifically to work, whatever the result ...

... Wuis.TxvEn be the cause of the uninterrupted series i of defeats which the Austrians have suffered, C whether incapacity on the part of -their Generals, or t inefficiency or lack of numbers and sPirit on the part of the army, it is becoming very doubtful whether they will hold their ground at all, even be- f hind the fortresses of the Adige, unless powerfully rein- forced. It is whispered that ...

... COMBAT AT CASTENEDOLA. l The following are some particulars of a combat fought t at Castenedola:-Generai Garibaldi, wishing to throw a I bridge across the Chiese, in order to keep open corn-i munications with Brescia, placed part of his troops at I IRezzato and Treponti to oppose the Austrian vanguard,whicl E had advanced as far as that place. Some companies of i Cacciatori delle Alpi attacked ...

... ACCJDLi:NTS, OFFENCES, &c. Mr. William Herbert, ?? oF Oxford, a tradesman of that town and also a suburban farmer, died by his own hand on Monday. He shot himself in the kitchen of hie farmhouse, oppressed with an insane belief that bewas insolvent, and proof against ies eolicitor's assertions to the contrary. Married but one year and a half, he leaves a widow and one Child. A jury found a ...

... Sir,-I beg your attention to the following letter, which appeared in the Western Ttimes on the 25th ultime. I have demanded from the Editor of that paper the ceanie of the author; but it is refused, on the ground that the Editor cannot be expected ' to burke discussion -though it appears he has little hesitation in bulking a reputntion, and fails to explain how a fair discussion canll be ...

... 1 o7 R~0 CONTEIMPO1L A ilE & , FRlND 0F It-(Ties.)-It is no im- . alert of Lord John Russell's discretion to ob- 00lthat he has selected the most arduous post in s world' .a that be is the man in whose case its tields, assun e the most formidable character. A;John Russell has long been the friend of rti other statesmen have taken up particular It lY. ?? and exposed the iniquities of this Or ...