... Fraster's Magazine for November has a good article on fish, from which we select the following capital suggestions on their increase:— OBSERVING SEA PISH. Sea fish grow up unheeded-quite, so to speak, out of the bounds of observation. Naturalists can only guess at what rate a cod-fish grows. Even the life of a herring is still a mystery, and at what age the mackerel or any other fish becomes ...

... 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 ...

... AUTBJO'BMED COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. We are Happy, says Guardian, to see that the objections brought against certain portions of the Bible are- about to be met by leading theologians of the Church osrifngland in a very practical way. If a false and unfair system of interpretation has been applied to the testr of scripture the best way of confuting it is to apply a true and legitimate one. The ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE. MONMOrTHSHIRE ENGLISH BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The half-yearly meeting of the above-named Association was held in the Baptist Chapel, Caerleon, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3rd and 4th of November. Notwith- standing the unfavorable state of the weather, there was a good attendance of ministers and messengers. The services commenced on Tuesday evening, when sermons were ...

... STORY OF LEGACY. The U!v¿vc1siiy Magazine contains an amusing Di- gressive Essay on Wills, in which are related nume- rous examples of carious wills. The following is a specimen :-=-- In the year 179S the following s*.range circumstance occurred in connection with a wiE. Two gentlemen, who.hud been left executors to a friend, on examining the property, fotmd a scrap of paper on which was ...

... ACCIDENT.—On Friday last an accident happened to a miner named David Eva.s, aged about 20, by which he unfortunately lost his left hand. In charging a hole, the wire by some means ignited the powder, and the ramming was forcibly ejected, shattering the poor fellow's tiand so severely, that it required amputation above the wrist. LECTURE.—A lecture on Colliers and Miners was given at the ...

... CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETy.-Sermons, morning and evening, on behalf of this society were preached at St. Mary's church, and we understand that the collections were liberally responded to. A public meeting on behalf f of the same object was held on the following day, at the Grammar School, when several instructive addresses were delivered. POLICE COURT, MONDAY, before W. W. MANNING,, Esquire. ...

... (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 ...