... IT may appear something like the day after the fair for us to write upon this subject. The question, we may be told, is settled and done with, and it will answer no good purpose to re-open the discussion. It is quite useless to moot a point on which there has been enough said, without conducing to an agreement. This. or something of the sort, will be felt and said by wise people who may ...

... COPENHAGEN. Nov. 14—The following bulletin of His Majesty's health was issued this morning :— The erysipelas spread yesterday over the King's whole face, with increasing fever and continued slight deliriums. No accession of erysipelas took place last night. Having obtained a little sleep, His Majesty is rather better to-day. Nov. 15.—The King of Denmark died at Glucks- burg at half-past 2 ...

... CANON GIRDLESTONE ON EDUCATION. In presiding over the: late Anniversary Festival of the Halbertou Farmers' Club, Canon Girdlestone delivered an interesting and practical address upon the advantages of educa- tion in connection with agriculture; and we transfer. with much pleasure, a portion of the rev. gentleman's remarks to our columns. After some prefatory observations, the speaker said—Now ...

... CORN EXCHANGE.—MONDAY. Lut week's supplies of wheat and oats were short, but fair of other grain and flour. Expolb-,88 qrs. oatø. Of English wheat there were 7,101 qrs of foreign 5,311 qrs. There was but a moderate show of samp es Kent and Essex this morning. The general condition was not good, but the previous Monday's rates were realized. The foreign trade, though not fast, was fully Is. per ...

... LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF A NEW METHODIST FREE CHURCH. The congregation, which for jeara has been accustomed to meet in a small building, at the corner of Charles- street, becoming too large for their place of worship, have for some time been engaged in attempting to remove to a more eligible site. Through the noble generosity of Sarf 7' Ea$-> and J- CW> Esq., this has been J u tt,anf 011 ...

... THE REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER A WELSHMAN. WALES more than any other nation of equal popula- tion has reason to be proud of the distinguished position attained by her sons in all that can adorn the human character. Pre-eminently among the orators of the present day stands the Rev. II. W. Beecher, who in reply to an address from the Welsh Congregational Ministers of Liverpool just before his ...

... (FURTHER POWERS.) (Alteration of Roads at Paddington Railway at Wor- cester; Additional Lands at Paddington, Middle Duffryn, Mountain Ash, Kidderminster, and Chirk Gauge of the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Rail- way Lease or Purchase of Hammersmith and City Railway, and Tenbury and Bewdley Railway; Agreements with London and North-Western, Hammersmith and City, and Oswestry and New- town ...

... THE usual monthly meeting of this Board was held on Wednesday last, at the offi ce of theCleik, in Victoria- street, wten the following iii^natvrs were present:— Messrs. W. Smyth (chairman), D. Merpan, J. W. James, W. Harris, E. YV. Scale, F. Cartyle, and Rev. Gwe»yn Jones. The miHUtes of the last meeting were read, but pw- vious to their being confirmed, Mr. Roach, wliw(iad i undertaken to ...

... BURGLARY.—The storehouse of Mr. Samuel Dix was broken open on Saturday night or Sunday morn- ing, and a quantity of bacon stolen. It is not known how much, but the estimate is that the burglars car- ried away a good booty. THE CREMONA UNION.—'This talented family have been delighting the inhabitants of Merthyr this week. Many of the members are individually ex- cellent players, but ...

... ABERDARE. THE WAGES QUESTION.—We believe we are cor- rect in stating that the workmen employed at all the principal works in this valley commence working upon the advance this (November) month. At the iron works, though we fear the recent improvement in the price of iron does not sustain itself as well as it was hoped it would, the advance is likely to be 10 per cent. At present it does not, ...

... We are glad to state that Mr. William Richards, who was for along time a pupil of our correspondent, Mr. John Rowlands, schoolmaster, Dinaspowis; has successfully passed Lis examination, and has been appointed clerk in the Customs. Mr. Richards is a promising young man. We wish him every success. ...

... Mr. Maguire, M.P., in his biography of Father ^$[ just published, says that after the good priest speaking one day in Golden-lane, Barbican, to c'At Irish, several hundreds knelt to receive the ple among them the Duke of Norfolk, then Lord '» t and Surrey. Mathew asked the earl if he had^ mHu J subject sufficient reflectien. Ah! Father | ] replied his noble convert, Do you not knot*' £ j ( ...