... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... HOUSES FOR WORKING MEN. jC THE revelationi lately made respecting the condition of Working-n*m's Houses in Bethnal Green and in some of the agricultural districts, together with the discussions which took place on the subject at the Social Science Congress at Edinburgh, last month, have induced us to give expression to our views on this important topic. Through the persistence and daring ...

... 4W Our Correspondents are requested to favour us with their communications as early in the week as possible as we are obliged, every week,to omit many commu- nications which would appear if we received them be- fore Thursday. WE do return rejected correspondence. If writers Reud us anything they deem important they should preserve a copy. ...

... MERTHYR BOARD OF GUARDIANS SATURDAY, November 14th, 1863. rti'n ClarT E?q- (Chairman), Messrs. D 5 W' £ flf W wWl?,' J- Ansell, D. Williams E. W. Scale, J. W. Russell, E. J. Davies, W. Wil- liams, D. Homer, Rev. J. Griffith, and Rev. E Jjewis. The minutes of the last Board meeting were read and confirmed, after which the following letter was read by the Chairman :— To the Chairimn of the ...

... SHAMEFUL DESERTION OF A WIFE AND FAMILY. COMMITTAL OF C. WOODWARD, OF THE COURT ARM. MERTHYR, FOR TIIREH MOHTJIS.—At the Police Court, Derby, en Saturday,a man named Cornelius Wood ward—well known wiim ill Der'ay as a keeper of greyhound.* and as a currier—was charged with deserting hw wife aud family. The Court was crowded, as it was wed known that the case was one of a very saameiul charac- ...

... BIRTH. On 2nd iiit., at Abernant. Aberdare, the wife of r Tho-.ias !5opkin siosgood. Engineer of the Aberdare Irm Works, and consulting engineer to the Plymouth Ir ei Company, of a daughter. ;.t.TRIAGE. On Saturd last, at Yaynor Clrarch, Mr. Williams, chandler. V etoHa-r.treet. to Mrs. Lewis, spirit vaults, George-town Merthyr Tydfil. DEATH. On Fridsy last, at t e General Picton Inn, James ...

... NEXT in importance to the labour wages of the work- ing mar) is the proviaion which he makes for sick pay and a i eusion in old age. Every mart feels certain (unless cut oil' by du.Li) F-c will be on-er- taken by the weakness and decrepitude of old age that sickticss or accident may lay him aside from his toil; and thus he is indu ed by the promptings of self love and foresight, to make the ...

... ANNALS OF THE PARISH. REFERENCE was made a few years ago in the MERTHYR TELEGRAPH to a record copied from the old parish books, simply giving the fact of an Irishman having been whipped in Merthyr for a misdemeanor. Since then, a native has returned hither, after wandering about Eng- land and Wales, and being of venerable age and unim- paired memory, it so happens that he can depose to the ...

... ANNAJLS OF THE PARISH. I FELL in some time ago with a gentleman of this town, now occupying an important position in one of the iron works, who, among other notions entertained one which was not, and is not. shared by the majority of the old inhabitants. It is possible that he had special oppor- tunities for satisfying himself of the statement that I am about to make. He believed fully that ...

... MERTHYR BOARD OF GUARDIAN^ SATURDAY. October 31At, 1863. Present—G. T. Clark, Esq. (Chairman), Messrs. R Thomas, J. Ansell, D. Wit iams, N B. Allen, W. Wii!iam. D. Rosser, L. Lewis, T. WatUius, B Kirk- house, E. VV. Scale, J. W. Russell, R. H. Rhys, T. Williams, G. Martin, D. Davies, and Rev. J. Griffith. The minutes of the la > B jard weieread, and in refer- ence to the alterations ui ttie ...