... The trial of Bishop Colenso for false and erroneous teaching in his published works begun on November 17, in St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, the court consist, iug of the Metropolitan Bishop of Cape Town and two sulfragans, the B.shop of Graham's Town end the Bishop of the Orange Fr>'e btate. 1 ho accusing clergy, the Dean of Cape Town and the ^rchdoaoons of Graham's Town and George wgro ...

... BRIDGEND. BACHELOR'S BALL. A virtue can no more die than a star can fall out of the firmament. In one sense, too, customs never die out. There are always individuals who are called to exercise them, and when some of them disappear there is a gulf and a separation in the continuity of history. Certain customs are characteristic of cer- tain times and seasons, and certain states of society; and ...

... MR. BRUCES'S LATE SPEECH. There was one mistake in our report of the hon. Member's speech last week which we now correct, nd we add three extracts which will be read with loterast. In--t-amparing the increase of Great 3Britain and France, what Mr. Bruce did say was this—that France, with a population greater by 10,000,000 than Great Britain, increased only by 350,000. The increase of the ...

... DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS Prepared without any mercurial ingredient, from the retipe of Dr. SCOTT, of Bromley, Kent. For affections of the Liver, Iadigestion, Flatulency, Bile, Sick Headache, Giddiness, Loss of Appetite, Lowness of Spirits, with sen-ation of fulness at the pit of the stomach pains between the shoulders, and the distressing feeling arising from Indigestion and General ...

... TO THE MAGISTRATES OF THE COUNTY OF GLAMORGAN As the incalculable loss of Mr. Henry Thomas, your late invaluable Chairman, will soon require you to ap- point a successor, let me implore you to weigh well the present responsibilities of that most important office. When such barristers as Mr, Grove, Mr. Giffard, Mr. Coleridge, the Messrs. Allen, Bowen, &c., attend our Quarter Sessions, it will ...

... (Continued from our 7tll page.) TUESDAY. (Before the Mayor and J. Pride, Esq.) Thomas Leonard was charged with being drunk and riotous in Nelson-street, on Monday night, and also assaulting a young woman, named Jane Young. Sentenced to three months hard labour. John Griffiths was charged with being drunk and incapable at the South Wales Railway Station, on Monday. Fined 5s. and costs. Martha ...

... TIIBMBLANCIIOLY BOAT ACCIDENT lfEAB LYTHAM.- The Preston Guardian gives further particulars of the melancholy boat accident on the RibbleOn the following morning the boat was found on the sands, and near it was found the body of Miss Laura Sugars; Mr. Watson, Mr. Henry Sugars, and Miss Watson were found on Thursday morning and on Friday the remains of Miss Mary Sugars, the youngest of the ...

... During the last twenty years the general features of South Wales have undergone great changes in social commercial, and even in geographical points of view. The enormous develop- ment of mining enterprise, and the opening of railways, have peopled districts which were fomerly uninhabited. New towns have arisen, new harbours have been formed and the fair countries of South Wales have awakened ...

... ANOTHER stage has been reached in the gas con- troversy. The advocates of cheaper gas for the public lights have a clear course before them, if they only follow it up. We were very much sur- prised at the line of observation which Mr. Win- stone took last Monday. That gentleman must look to his laurels, if he is to be considered the reformer of abuses. He has not taken the po- pular side this ...

... The following collections have been made in this little parish, within the last six mouths:—In aid of the Cle- rical Fund, £1 10s. In behalf of the Llandaff Church Extension Society, £2. We consider this very liberal on the part of two families who have chiefly to bear the burden in this parish, namely, E. David, Esq., of Radyr Court, and G. F. Evans, Esq., surgeon, Tynant Cottage, espe- ...

... (Before R. O.Jones and J. Pride, Esqrs.) STABBING.—John George was charged with 6tabbin^ and wounding a woman on Fridaylast. It appeared from the evidence of P.S. Wines, that some of the neighbours informed him on Friday that the prisoner had stabbed a woman with whom he had been cohabiting. He went to the prisoner's house and charged him with the offence. He denied it, and said he only used ...

... A BELLRINGER'S CHRISTMAS STORY. CHAPTER I.—UP AMONGST THE BELLS AT MIDNIGHT. '• Only dull metsl, are they t Ah, so people say. They come to look at my bells sometimes—the visitors I mean after they have walked up and down the aisles aud seen the brasses, and the dead crusader with his marble hands crossed upon his breast for ever, and the coloursofthe window stealing down him. They quarrel ...