... imeral ptoi The select committee appointed to prepare estimates of the charge of the disembodied militia of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 1st of April, 1859, to the 31st of March, 1860, have estimated the number of men for 1859-60 at 103,644, and the cost at £462,860, as against 91,003 men, and £ 432,900. The second and last concert of the artistes of the Drury-lane Opera was given on ...

... PARLIAMENTARY RECORD. SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. In the House of Lords, after several petitions had been presented, and the Royal consent given by com- mission to various public and private bills, the Queen's Speech was read by the Lord Chancellor, as follows My Lords and Gentlemen, We are commanded by her Majesty to release you from your further attendance in Parliament, and at the same time to ...

... Why is a sheriff's officer like a new and and useful invention ?—Because he is a stteing machine. LITTLE KINDNESSES.—Small acts of kindness, how pleasant and desirable do they make life Every dark object is made light by them, and every tear of sorrow is brushed away. When the heart is sad, and despondency sits at the entrance of the soul, a trifling kindness drives away despair, and makes the ...

... SALE OF GAS BILL. The following brief particulars respecting this bill, which received the Royal assent on the last day of the session, will be likely to be serviceable to all gas consumers: After the passing of this act the only legal standard or unit of measure for the sale of gas by meter shall be the cubic foot, containing 02.3211b., avoirdupois weight, of distilled or rain water, weighed ...

... SENTENCE OF DEATH. Yesterday, this extraordinary case was brought to a close, and resulted in a verdict of Guilty. Sentence of death was pronounced upon the prisoner. He declared Dr. JaHus is xny rmir-.terer, I are icno- qen't. -*•———» MiUthow iliit of hi, wife A b ...

... A HINT TO THE SATIIIIST. IVit is not the produce of study; it comes almost as unexpectedly on the speaker as on the hearer; one of the first principles of it is good temper. The arrows of wit ought always to be feathered with smiles—when they fail in that, they become sarcasm. A HAPPY FAMILY. Lady Chatterton, in her plea- sant gossiping hambles in the South of Ireland (1838), relates that she ...

... From a variety of interesting news we are obliged to give a brief selection. ABERDARE.-The English Independent Chapel has been greatly improved, and is to be re-opened on the 11th proximo.—Great preparations are making for the Congregational Union of England and Wales on the 12th and three following days of September. -The bazaar on behalf of St. Elvan's Church was most successful.-The ...

... In the Lords the Earl of Derby asked Lord Granville what course lie intended to take with bills before Parliament, in order to meet the general hope that the session would not be pro- tracted beyond a fortnight?—Earl Granville said, from the anomalous character of the present session it would be difficult, indeed impossible, at present to fix a day for its close.—Lord Teyn- ham asked whether, ...

... fitters t0 tqt iMtar. THE WATER QUESTION. SIR,—Allow me as a party having an interest in Well being of your fastly increasing town, to say words on the above important question. Be- ,ve me, the time is fast approaching when the Sect will force itself with unexpected urgency, on minds of all the inhabitants at present so scantily l(lPplied with the blessing of pure water. Your °e^l authorities ...

... (tarsi fife. A young man was killed by a cricket ball last week at Gorton. Boydell's traction engine, and a train of carriages, is about being despatched to India by the Govern- ment. A trial in Hydepark has proved satisfactorily that the engine and carriages may be advantageously used on public roads. WESLEYAN METHODIST CONFERENCE.—The fol- lowing is a correct and final list of the home mis- ...

... SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1859. THE WATER QUESTION. WHEN it is too late the corporations of this country have lamented that they had not the supply of gas and water in their own hands. Scarcely a municipal town in Great Britain but has, more or less, contentions with gas and water companies. The reasons are obvious. Private enterprise has supplied both these requisites, and the directors contend ...

... Cardiff Times Office, Saturday, 4.0.JP.JR. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. The following is the Directors' Report to be laid- before the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting, to be held at Bristol on Saturday next. The Directors of the Taff Vale Railway Company present to the proprietors their forty-seventh half-yearly report. The demand for the staple article of export was augmented during the half ...