... PRESENTATION TO DAVID WILLIAMS, ESQ., YNYSCYNON HOUSE. (From our own Correspondent.) WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE prominent and noble part which Mr. Williams (Alaw Goch,) has always taken in connection with Eisteddfodau, has endeared himjto his bardic country- men. The active, energetic, and self-denying character of his labours in connection with the recent National Eisteddfod has earned for him ...

... LIST OF ALL THE FURNACES IN AND OUT I OF BLAST IN THE SOUTH WALES DISTRICT. Proprietors'Names. § £ I || c 3 O O w i—i ''Aberdare Iron Co. Abernant, Gla- morgan.. 3 0 3 .GlynNeath,, 3 0 „ Aberdare ,,651 Bailey, Crawshay Aberaman 3 3 0 Briton Ferry Iron Co. Briton Ferry 2 2 0 Booker, T. W. & Co. Pentyrch 2 2 0 Brogden & Sons Tondu 2 2 0 Crawsha}', William. Cyfarthfa and Ynisfach „ 11 11 0 ...

... SAVED FROM THE HALTER. The following account of the case of a girl who was wrongly executed in the year 1766 is given by a celebrated French uthor (and quoted by Mr. Peter Burke, Serjeant-at-Law, in his Romance of the Forum) as an instance of the injustice which was often committed by the equivocal mode of trial then used in France :— About seventeen years since, a young peasant girl was ...

... LIFE IN CHEAP LODGINGS. It is a very old saying that one half the world knows not how the other half lives. And that is equally true of sleeping. Poverty, indeed, often ac- quaints us with strange bed-fellows. Those who have never tasted the reverses of fortune may scarcely credit the difficulty a poor man experiences in pro- viding a home or a shelter. Reader, your eye may perhaps have ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DEATH OF THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN SUFFERERS. SHIELDS, Wednesday, Noon. During the whole of last night workmen were em- ployed putting up the cloth brattice in the shaft at Hartley Colliery. They have wrought very vigorously and successfully. The brattice is now completed, and the men are securing it by means of bunting. Pipes have also been fixed between the engine ...

... THE LATE DARING BCRGLARY.-About a fortnight ago, it will be recollected, a most daring burglary was committed in the neighbourhood, by some three or four men entering a house, and after threatening to murder the inmates made off with some £:3, all the money in the house at the time. Of course the po- lice have been on the alert, and four men have been apprehended on suspicion, one of whom is a ...

... The cutter Badger was ran down at Kingstown on Saturday evening, by the London steamer Leader. The cutter's crew had a narrow escape. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—A day or two after the death of his Royal Highness, Mr. Theed, the sculptor, attended at Windsor Castle, bv the Queen's command. It was her Majesty's wish that a cast of the Prince s hand should be taken, and this was ac- cordingly done, ...

... An Irish lover remarked that it is a great pleasure to be alone, especially when your swateheart is wid ye. A scientific agriculturist, during the Cattle Show, was met in the street, exhibiting an aspect of deep dejection. On being asked what was the matter with him, he replied that his pigs had been plucked. It is a curious fact that the cows of Japan will not produce milk except for their ...

... NEWS from Lisbon, Dec. 30, states that Prince Jo&o is. dead. An examination of his body has been made by the physicians, who have certified that the cause of death was typhoid fever. A DISPATCH dated Dec. 26 says:—King Luiz I. has taken up his residence at the palace of Caxias. The body of the late King is to be disinterred and analysed. The public is greatly excited. Detachments of troops are ...

... SOUTHASPTON. Agent-Mn. J. Tueciasn. I Tue Prae, Captain Jamnieson, sailed hence onl Saturday C) afternoon with thle snails for Gibraltar, the Mfediterraneall, ,, E~gypt, Ailen, Ceylon, Indial, Chinia, &c., together with 67 tj first end 24 scecond-class palssengers. II The XA~oabra, Caftolin Steward, for Vigo, Oporto, and C, Lisboin, left onl Tvuca ay with the Peninsular mails. A Thoe Ellora, ...

... - O it FIVE MIEN KILLED AND UPWARDS OF TWO n |HUNDRED BURIED ALIVE. eI One of the most alarming colliery accidents tlat has te occurred in this country for several yenrs past took place !r on Tliursday morning, at New Hartley colliery, resulting e in tbe death at once of five poor fellows, and the placing d in imminent jeopardy the lives of over 200 others. We Ii briefiy stated the fact in ...

... _STABLISRED PRESBYTERY OF GLAS-iOW., CY1. 03 WATSON OF ST. 3TATTEENV'S TO DlUNDE A. special meeting of this Presbytery was held yesterday- 3- Seira, of ]iLUYth, Moderator-for the purpose of hear. 1,g parties in reference to the call from the congregation of gbe parish Church of Dundee to the Rev. Archd. Watson, of Ct. Vat~hew's. - Th. lolloving gentlemen appeared as a deputation from ct ...