... It will be remembered that when the Sarah Palmer went ashore near Tuskar Light all the crew, with the exception of eleven, reached the shere safely. The eleven, among whom was the captain, were carried away in one of the ship's boats, and doubts were beginning to be entertained for their safety. On Saturday, however, at noon, a telegram was received in Liverpool, announcing the fact that the ...

... The First of May. The Crystal Palace Annual May-day Festival could not possibly have been more brilliant than it was this year. If the season just inaugurated is marked by many such thoroughly admirable performances as that with which it has been opened, it will indeed deserve to be in the highest degree successful. Everything conspired to make the day pass pleasantly. Even our fickle climate ...

... POJEilUuICAL GOSSIP. |' T-KE Emperor is going to pay Cherbourg C visit next week, in order to view the new construction of the frigate Solferiao. The proceeding is-viswed as indicative, of bellicose intentions. IT is reported in naval circles tibøt Vice-Admiral Sir Chatles Freetaentle, 'K.C.B., will succeed Sir Houston Stewart as Commainder-in- Chief at Devonport, and that; Vice-Admiral S'ir ...

... TEA MEETING AT THE WELSH BABPIST CHAPEL.- On Wednesday last the annual tea meeting was held in the above place, when a very respectable company sat down to tea. After tea a public meeting was held, presided over by Dr. Emlyn Jones, when addresses were delivered in Welsh and English, by the Revs. William Williams, Roath; James, Croes-y-park; and Edwards, Jarvis, and J. Bailey, of Canton. We ...

... CARMARTHEN. Considerable excitement prevailed in Carmarthen on Friday afternoon last, in consequence of a report that Mr. Titus Lewis Jones, late chemist and druggist, and son of the Rev. H. W. Jones, Baptist Minister, of that town, bad been found dead in bed in his own house. An inquest was held on Friday even- ing in the Guildhall, before John Hughei, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury. ...

... BROCCOLI PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN.—A eurious broccoli has been sent to her Majesty, who has graciously acknowledged the receipt of it through the Master of her Household. Its shape was that of & scroll or riboaade, 18 inches in length, Ii inch in diameter in the middle, and 3 inches at either end. The plant was lined in the centre by a solid line of the same nature as the flower, and following ...

... T O W 1ST Xj K. BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.1 OUT l eaders will understand that we do net hold ourselves responsible for our able correspondent's opinions. THE Prince of Wales has made his first appear- ance in public, as a speaker, at the annual dinner of the Royal Academy, and with success. His short and neat speech was delivered, and produced the more effect from his evident emotion when ...

... The usual annual procession of St. Mark, which was prohibited this year in Warsaw by the police, having nevertheless taken place, Archbishop Felinski was con- fined as a prisoner in his palace, and the canons Bialobrzeski, Wyszeski, Poplawski, and others, as well as a great number of priests were arrested. In conse- quence of orders afterwards received by telegraph from St. Petersburg, they ...

... ON Thursday afternoon her Majesty took her departure for Osborne, Isle of Wight, for a tew days, accompabied by the Prince and Princess of Hesse and infant Princess, Prince Alfred, 'Princesses Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, and Prince Arthur. THEIR Royal Highnesses the- Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Louis of Hesse, accompanied by their Grand Ducal Highnesses ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The usual weekly meeting of the above Board waf,Beia'afe the Board Room, Canton, this day. The Worshipful the Mayor in the chair. 15 TnE STATE OF THE HOUSE. The Master reported that there had been 17 conditional ad- missions during the week. There were 52 admksions, 60 dis- charged, 371 remaining in the house, 55 in the Refuge, and 36: in Halket-street, being a ...

... WE are happy to say that the differences that appeared to threaten a rupture between this country and America are, at any rate, patched up, if not entirely withdrawn. The announcement that the Government of the United States had decided, in compliance with the demands of Lord Lyons, of delivering up, with seals unbroken, the mail bags captured in the Peterhoff, has been received with great ...

... DEATH OF THE REV. THOMAS DAVIES, M.A. It is with unfeigned regret that we have to report the death of the worthy Incumbent of Trevethin, which melancholy event occurred on the morning of Saturday last, at Bath, to which place he had repaired for the bene- fit of his health, which had been fearfully impaired by several attacks of paralysis, and to one of which, death is to be attributed. ...