... CARDIFF AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. May 11.—Third Sunday after Easter. Morning Service at 11 o'Clock. Lessons—First, 4th ch. Dent.; Second, 9th ch. Matt. Venite; Fitzherbert. Daily Psalms; Isaac Barrow. Ser- vice; Dr. Boyce. Iutroit; Hy. 148. Hymn No. 115. Afternoon Service at 3i o'Clock. Lessons—First, 5th ch. Deut; Second, 10th ch. Romans. Daily Psalms; Anonymous. ...

... CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held at Exeter Hall, Strand, on Tuesday. The proceedings were com- menced at ten o'clock by the Rev. Henry Venn, wb0 effered up prayer. The Earl of Chichester occupied the thair, and was supported by the Bishop of London the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Sierra Leone, th*. Bishop of Nova Scotia, the Dean of Carlisle, &c., &c. ...

... This is a very serious Saturday for many an honest and peace-loving country gentleman (says the London Review). Next week the Great Exhibition opens, and Mr. Briggs, farmer and yeoman, will be obliged to think of visiting the metropolis, and, what is worse, he may have to carry a bevy of blushing domestic beauties under his fatherly wing. The horrors of his arrival in the metropolis may well ...

... 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. ...

... Fairs—Cowbridge, Mon; Castletown, TliCS,o Monmouth, Wed Petty Sessions, Caerleon [alehouse licenses,$c.) Tuesday County Court—Abergavenny, Thursday; Chepstow, Friday ...

... THE Journal de St. Petershourg of May 15 advices the Elector of Hesse to use his subjects in the same words as the King of Bavaria spoke to the Bavarians— I will have peace with my people. The St. Petersburg journals state that the total issue of gold at the State Bank yesterday and the previous day in exchange for paper was only 87,000 silver roubles, while the deposit of gold at the ...

... BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT, Our readers wilt understand that we do not kold ourselves responsible for our able correspondent's opinions. You must not expect anything about the opening of the Exhibition from me—the dailies will have exhausted that topic before the end of the week but I may safely advise country friends not to hurry their visit to town. The contents of the building are not ...

... As I go the latter half of my journey in a gig, I am obliged to travel n-ore leisurely than I did at Irit, and shall not reach Nottingham till to-morrow evening. I have, therefore, sat down to write you from this place, in order that you may have a letter oh Monday. I have made but poor work of it hitherto. All yesterday I was jammed up in a hot coach with a silent farmer, a sleepy, lispy ...

... The King- of the Belgians. THE Moniteur Beige of Brussels, May 6, contains the following:— The King underwent a fresh operation on Sunday last, which afforded him some relief. Yesterday evening the state of his Majesty's health was less satisfactory. ^dition to the above official statement, it is known j KinS has been suffering so severely since the end. of last week, that his son, the Count ...

... FRANCE. THE-review which took place on the 13th in the Champs de Mars was magnificent. In its comments on American affairs, the Patrie of the 13th inst., which hitherto has been very hostile to the North, says the taking of New Orleans is calculated: to precipitate the march of events, and hasten the fall of the Southern Confederation; and again, A new situ- ation is coming, which will require ...

... The Education Vote. The house then went into committee of supply on the civil service estimates, commencing with the vote on education, which was agreed to. After some discussion on the next vote, for science and education, a motion was made to report progress, which on a division was carried by 65 to 59, and the house resumed. The other business was gone through, and the house ad- journed. ...

... iWamages. At the Baptist Chapel, Raglan, May 8, by the Rev. B. Johnson, Mr. Oliver Woore, of Llangattoek-nigh-Usk, to Miss Hannah Prince, of Llandennv. At Siiirenewton Church, May 12, by the Rev. C. R. Hall, Mr. Robert Benjamin, butcher, Shirenewton, to Miss Fanny Peachey, Wiiton, Heretordshire. At Trelleck Church, May 5, by the Rev. C. A. F. Kuper, Mr. John Stephens, to Miss Priscilla ...