... When these classes were opened there were, as there still are, evening lectures given by the Young Men's Christian Association; but these do not attempt systematic instruction, or the formation of classes in which there can be established any close personal relations between those who teach and those whom they are teaching. There were also at Crosby Hall excellent evening classes open at very ...

... CHEPSTOW PLOWING MATCH. The Annual Plpwing Match in connection with the Chepstow Farmers' Club took place on Great Dinham farm near Shirenewton, on Thursday the 17th instant. The weather was very favorable, and 50 teams were in the field. Amostbountifuliunchoon was provided by Mr. Woodall, and the guests were very hospitably entertained The judges were Mr. Wm. Pride, and Mr. Henry Butt, and Mr ...

... THE TABEBNACLE.—The Anniversary sermons were preached at thi$plape of worship, in English and Welsh, by the Revs. Timothy Davies, Bassaleg, and George Thomas, Usk, on Sunday last. The congre- gations were somewhat numerous, and the collections liberally responded to. THE WtSLEYAN CHAPEL.—The Rev: John Vanes, of Gloucester, and the Rev. Doctor Thomas, of Pont- y-pool, preached the anniversary ...

... A Roman Catholic nunnery was establisbed -tast week at Abbotsleigh, Devonshire. Their numbers are 38, and they had emigrated from Spetisbury, Dorset, but .originally came from Belgium at the time of the French Revolution. The late Mr. Sharman Crawford. Mr. William Sharman Crawford died on the 17th inst., at his residence, Crawfordsburn, near Bangor, county Down. He was long known to the ...

... .THE IKT13RI3ATIOUAIi EXHIBITION AND CAPTAIN FOWKE. The newspaper press has been so constant in recording the accumulating wonders essential to this building, and so carefulin describing the extraordinary exertions that are made in the progress of the undertaking, that little, in those respects, affords, at present, an opportunity for indulging further either in remark or description. During ...

... BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT Our readers will understand that we do not hold ourselves re- sponsible for our able Correspondent's opinions. ANOTHER of the engineering notabilities, and the oldest of them all, has just died—Sir William Cubitt-in his seventy-eighth year. He was the son of a miller, in Suffolk, and first became a journeyman millwright, then worked in the plough- making factory of ...

... A London watchmaker, who gave one thousand guineas for the back page of the Great Exhibition Cata- lague of 1862, has been offered a bonus of tl,000 for his bargain! Fight between English and French Sailors. -The master of the fishing smack Prince Arthur, of and from Ramsgate, gives the following particulars of an attack made on his crew by the crew of a Boulogne boat, which ended in a ...

... Victimising the Simple-On Saturday Mr. Wavell, the manager of Stubns's Mercantile Protection Society, waited upon Mr. Burcham, with Mr. Ray, of the firm of Ray and Son, coal merchants, Old Sun wharf, Narrow-street, Ratcliff, to expose a system of alleged fraud being carried on by a person in the district of that court. He stated that Messrs. Ray and Son received an order for four tons of coal ...

... Two most important movements have occurred within the last few days in connection with the history of this movement. One was a demonstration of the trades at St. James's Hall, on behalf of the masons, and the other was the general meeting of the operative bricklayers in Waterloo road. the next evening, the object being to take into consideration and decide upon their proposed new regulation ...

... The Moniteur informs Europe that the Govern- ment is about to take measures against anonjmous pamphlets. A report is current that the Emperor of the French intends to honour us with his piesencs next year, in order to visit the Great Exhibition. ...

... WRECKS IN I860. At the present period, when storms and shipwrecks are warning us of the approach of winter, it will be well to call public attention to the Annual Official Register of Shipwrecks on the Coast and in the. Seas of the°United Kingdom, presented by the Board of Trade to Parliament. It is hardly possible to overrate the importance of this document, for it details, with great ...

... WHAT the French call an embarras de richesses is just now afflicting the Stock Exchange. There is a difficulty, we are told, in employing money on any terms, the rate for short periods having been, in some instances, as low as 1 per cent., while the price of consols is the same for cash as for the account. A continued fall in the funds is therefore very difficult, and we are not surprised to ...