... 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 ...

... ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND. The attentiou of the friends of the church is invited to the following regulations of the Ecclesiastical Com. missioners «f Th v • n» Whi,ehall Place, S.W., June, 1859. e Commissioners for England are pre- fund „n°rWC,e.,Ve •PPlic,tlon8 for grants, out of Ibe common for the cure of 1' towards making better provision by^ benefactions fronJ o°herDsouw;le ...

... CORN-EXCHANGE. MoNBAY. There were very large arrivals of wheat, oat., and 6.)ur last week, with a good supply of buley and peso, and a •hort one of beans. The export* 6,093 qr*. barley, :3,026 qf. oat-. The receipts of English wheat were 3,253 qUI., of foreign 61,479 qrl. There was but a moderate show of samples from Kent and Essex this morning, but lalel could only be made in small quantities ...

... THE CAMPBELL TESTIMONIAL.—We are happy to find that the subscriptions towards the testimonial to be given to the Bishop of Bsngor, on his departure from Merthyr, amounts, including the subscriptions uf the Marchioness of Bute and Lord Dynevor, to the handsome sum of 9566. Many speculations have arisen as to the form the testimonial should assume; but a strong feeling having been expressed by ...

... WELSH AND NORTH COUNTRY STEAM-COAL- An old adage tells us that both parties to a dispute should be heard before any conclusion is drawn aud it is, satisfactory to record the publication of Mr. Dobsou's vers'of* of the results of the Cardiff portion of the Government ments, conducted under the inspection of Messrs. Taplin »D. Lynn, the engineers appointed by the Admiralty to rep°j upon the ...

... A grand banquet to which her Majesty's Ministers were invited, was given on Saturday evening last—the anniver- sary of the Feast of St. Barnab-ts-in accordance with geueral custom, in the magnificent hall of this corpora- tion, to the. President and Fellows of SI, John's College, Oxford. After the day's proceedings, the banquet was held in the evening, at which about 200 persons sat down to ...

... We (The Sun of Thursday) believe we are correct in stating that the following is the list of the New Ministry, which will Friday be submitted by Lord Palmerston for the approbation of her Majesty: First Lord of the Treasury—Lord Palmerston. Lord Chancellor—Lord Campbell. Foreign Secretary—Lord John RusselU Home Secretary—Sir G.C.Lewis. Colonial Secretary—Duke of Newcastle. • Secretary for War ...

... Tuesday morning having been fixed by the Archbishop of Canterbury for the consecration of the Bishops of B.mgor, Brisbane, and St. Helena—one Welsh and two colonial — Westminster Abbey was well tilled, partly by personal friends of the new prelates, and partly by those who take an interest in the solemn ceremony of sending forth the chief pastors of the Church. The three clergymen who were to ...

... PROVINCIAL WELSH INSURANCE COMPANY.-We are Please,itolinti many additional influential names upon the Ilstof office. bearers of the Provincial Welsh Insurance company, among them the Right Hon. Lord Boston, the Viseouut Avonmore, Lord Massey, the Hon. F, Yelvertoiij 1. Barnes. Esq., of Farnworth, near Manchester, and of the Quinta, Salop, (late M.P. for Bolton) &c. Sir Char- les Morgan, one of ...

... (From a Correspondent.) When fairs, mops, and statutes were first established, they were intended to benefit the people, and afford them some little recreation. Then the trading community resorted to them to sell their commodities, and people residing in the country had no other opportunities of purchasing those articles requisite in domestic life; but since then commerce having so extended ...

... PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. George Beardsall, to the curacy of St. Mathias, Salford. Rev. T. Bewsher, to the reetory of Clay. next-the-Semp Norfolk. Rev. A. Birlev, to the perpetual caracy or Astley Bridge) Lancashire. Rev. G. J. Davie, to an assistant mastership in the Theological Department of Queen's College, Bir- mingham. Rev. E. Forbes, to be chaplain to the British Embassy at ...