... €|t Cardiff times. FRIDAY, APRIL 36S 1861. THE BUTE AUTOCRACY. VERY simple is the process by which an autocracy may be instituted, even where all the surrounding elements are supposed to be purely democratic. That large commercial interests are entitled to much consideration, no one in his senses will deny; but in claiming that consideration, and enjoying the immunities which such a concession ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. NOTICE.—The Railway Time Tables are published with as much care to ensure correctness as possible, but should they contain any errors, the publisher does not hold himself responsible for any inconvenience they may arise therefrom, as changes sometimes take place in the arrival and departure of trains without the knowledge of the Editor. ...

... YOUNG MEN'S MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SO- CIETY IN EBANCE.—We have been gratified in perusing a small pamphlet which has been sent to us, containing a report of an acldresswhich was delivered to a young men's mutual improvement society at St. Pierres-les- Calais, in France, by Mr. John Robert Taylor, Hon. Sec. of the London Mechanics' Institution. The subject of the address was, The Rise and ...

... AMID the uncertainties with which European and American politics harass and perplex the trade of Great Britain, the country is further tried by those collisions which have occurred in London and the manufacturing districts between masters and men. Persons at a distance from the scene of conflict can never fully comprehend the relative position of parties, and as to particular cases they are as ...

... TOWN TAL K. BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. ON; readers Mill understand that we do not hold ourselves reo sponsible for our able correspondent's opinions. MR. GLADSTONE deserves the credit of having kept his secret perfectly this time. Although there is nothing startling in the Budget, it came on the commercial public completely by surprise. A deficiency, and an addition of a penny to the income ...

... The following communication from Naples of the 6th gives an account of the late conspiracy:— Arf extensive reactionist movement was discovered last night in the capital and its environs. The frustra- tion of this attempt will be attended with happy conse- quences. The recruiting committee, sitting at Domenico Luciano's, in the Strada San Giovanni, was last night surprised by the police agent ...

... RAGLAN INSTITUTE.-Held over until next week. ...

... ON THE ADAPTATION OF DIFFERENT MA- NURES TO DJWFERENT CRops.-The records of nearly 20 years of experiments at Rothamsted have not afforded a single instance in which the application of ammoniacal salts to a cereal crop has failed to give a greater or less increase of produce. This is the case even where there has been a very unusual exhaustion of mineral consti- tuents; and this effect of ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE RIFLE VOL UNTEJfRS,- We under- stand the Second Battalion of Rifle Volunteers in this county, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bird and Major Butler, and composed of the following corps— 6th (Hanbury), Captain.Commandant Steel; 6th (Mon- mouth), Captain King; 7th (Newport Borough), Captain. Commandant Cathcart; 8th (Usk), Captain Relph; 9th (Abergavenny), Captain Hill, are ...

... PESTH, APRIL 1. Count Apponyi, Jndex Curiae of Hungary, will return to Vienna to-morrow. The opening of the Diet will most probably take place on Saturday next. ...

... HAUGHTON-LE-SICERNE RECTORY.—The Rev. E. Cheese, the new rcctor of Haughton-le-Skerne, read iiimsctfin on Sunday, in presence of a crowded congre- gallon. He took the entire duty, both morning and evening, the ordinary services being varied by the read- ing of the Thirty-nine Articles, and a declaration on his part of his unfeigned assent and consent thereto, and to the Book of Common Prayer ...

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