... Seti|gr # Jperhrt FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1863. LrVES OF EMINENT MERTHYR MEN. REV. DANIEL DAVIES, D.D. There is one way of entering Dowlais which, if at night, and in the winter, will recall to some kind, Dante's visit with Virgil to the regions of All,ni (Hell) to be matter-of-fact, and, to the many toe exceedingly striking. I allude to the en- raQce by the mill, through the tumble-down sort of o&> ...

... THE RIFLE CORPS.—The 19th Company attended divine service on Sunday last, at Lantwit-Vardre. A very impressive sermon was preached by the rector (Rev. Horatio Thomas), in which the duties of volun- teers were pointed out. The worthy rector concluded his discourse by statipg that the volunteer force was not for the purpose of encouraging war, but to main- tain peace. PRIMITIVE METHODISTS. — On ...

... COSMOPOLITANISM. MOVEMENTS everywhere indicate the wide- spread interest which mankind are taking in each other. True, we have to lament over Riany things which operate prejudicially to the interests of nations, and the complete triumph Of human liberty; but that only tends to in- tensify the yearnings which men feel for the Universal well-being of their species. Time and space are being, in ...

... HISTORICAL NOTES. BARROWS, ETC. Barrows are artificial mounds or hillocks, which are to be found in all parts of the world. They have been as repositories for the dead. In some places they have been formed of stones, and are called carneddau cairns. There are many of these heaps of stones to ae seen on the different hills in South Wales. Barrows are common on the Wiltshire downs-a person can ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. (Before R. O. JONES, and GEO. BIRD, Esqs.) James Allen, on a charge of drunkenness, was cautioned and discharged John Pearson was charged with committing an assault upon a man named Wallace in the Cardiff House of Refuge. The master proved the offence, and Pearson was sent to prison for fourteen days' hard labour. Bartholomew Bawney was charged with ...

... ABERDARE. A correspondent find that the Gadlys Iron Company are likely to lease their minerals at Llwydcoed to the Aberdare Iron Company only for the sake of a few pence haulage. I trust Mr. Wayne will not allow his name to be mixed with truck''for the sake of such a trifle. TRADE OF THE VALLEY.—We notice with much pleasure that, notwithstanding the depressed con. dition of trade, there was ...

... ARCHIDIACONAL VISITATION.-On Tuesday morn- ing there was a large gathering of clergymen and churchwardens at the Cathedral, on the occasion of the Ven. Archdeacon Blosse's visitation. The usual morning service was gone through, and a sermon was preached by the Rev. Gilbert Harris, the recently- appointed rector of Gellygaer. The rev. gentleman chose for his text Matthew iv. 19, 20, from which ...

... ^oetr BRITAIN'S BROTHERHOOD. YE Muses inspire with minstrel fire, Great—grander—higher, this tivrn lo:rs lyre And let the burden of my song be Patriots—Brothers British Scions Here your kin for ages flourished, Here you lived—may still be living, Have been, are, and will be nourished Here your sires lived before you, Here their bones in quiet lie, Here you, too, at life's sure finis, May be ...

... [From The Critic.] The History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion, by the Rev. Adam T. Farrar, being the Bampton Lectures for 1862, will be pub- lished shortly by Mr. Murray. Mrs. Newton Crossland has a novel in the press entitled Mrs. Blake, which will be published by Messrs. Hurst and Blaokett, in three volumes. Mr. Buckle, according to last accounts, was about to ...

... ST. HILARY. CHURCH RESTORATION.—The old church at this place, which was in a very delapidated condition, has been restored at the sole cost of Mrs. Mont- gomery Treherne, as a memorial of her late husband, the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne. George Gilbert Scott, Esq., of London, is the architect who has superintended the restoration, and Messrs. James and Price, of Cardiff, have executed the ...

... UTRECHT, Sunday.—The fearful calamity which has recently occurred to Enscliade can now be es- timated at its real importance. Seventeen-twen- tieths of the town have become a mass of ruins, and about four thousand persons are homeless and penniless. A great portion of the property destroyed was uninsured, but the machinery em- ployed in the manufactories was chiefly insured in English offices. ...

... Cetiend Betos. Large quantities of mackerel have been seen off the coast of Portland, in Dorsetshire. Messrs. Coutts and Co. have given to each of their clerks a season ticket for the Exhibition, with three days' leave of absence. The sum of £ 6,817 has been already collected for the cathedral to be erected in Belfast, including XI,000 from the Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, and £100 ...