... THE GENERAL PROVIDENT ASSURANCE COMPANY, Limited. CAPITAL: HALF A MILLION. DIRECTORS. THOMAS HATTERSLEY. Esq. (Chairman.) JOB CAUDWELL, Esq., F.R.S.L. (Deputy-Chairman.) Captain GEORGK BAYLY. FRANCIS BKODIGAN, Esq, J.P. W. PAUL CLIFT, 'Esq. JOSKPH A. HORNER, Esq. The Rev ROBERT MAGUIRE,M.A. The Right Hon. LORD TEYNIIAM. GENERAL GEO. GRIST, Esq., F.S.S. RESIDENT ACTUARY.—GEORGE S. HORSNAIL, Esq ...

... WACKS OF WIVES!—The llocky Mountain published at Denver, Colorado, isoutin,amost plaintive appeal to the women of the East to emigrate to that territory. It declares that there are six men to one woman, an,1 prlnnies all who emigrate good husbands and 80 dollars per month. That ought to fetch them. The promise of good husbands shows what a highly genial, good tempered, religious and moral ...

... ffolloway's Ointment and Pilla.-In all sores, wounds, bad legs, and sprains of any kind this Ointment is the most efficient application. It at once gives case, by allaying inflammation and moderating the flow of blood to the part. Whenever the malady has been of long standing the Ointment should be assisted by Holloway's purifying Pills, which act upon the stomach and liver, guarding digestion ...

... THE MONMOUTHSHIRE ANTI-CHURCH RATE LEAGUE.—The committee held a meeting at Llanvi- hangel, near Usk, on the 28th ult., for the purpose of arranging matters for their future proceedings. Mr T. Williams, Wernymellin, presided on the occasion, and very ably stated the object of the meeting, and was also well supported by other gentlemen of the neighbour- hood. It was decided that several public ...

... The Daily Telegraph wonders nobody ever found out what terrible fellows these freemasons were before. The public—good, easy people had an idea that, if you liked a good glass of wine and a good dinner, the brethren knew something about both, and you might do worse than go boldly in for the mystic grip, the pillars of the temple, and all that sort of thing. After this tremendous amount of ...

... The Midland Farmers' Club recently held a meeting at Bir- mingham, to hear a paper on the Game Question, by Mr. A. Robotham, who in the course of his lecture, read the follow- ing letter from rr. Bright, M.P.;— Dear Sir,—I am glad to hear that you are about to read a paper on the subject of the Game Laws. I do not think much good would be done by holding ameet- ing in Birmingham. The towns are ...

... There is, probably, no reason to guard against a wholesale extermination of our flocks of sheep or droves of pigs, although precautions must be adopted to prevent the conveyance of the infection by them. The conclusion to which the discovery of all these new sources of danger would lead USi seems to be in the direction of forbidding or discountenancing the gather- ing together of live stock at ...

... CAERLEON. PETTY SESSIONS, WEDNESDAY, before the Rev. W. POWELL, and JOHN JAMES, Esq. A WICKED FATHER.—Samuel Jones, of CK-mbran was charged, under remand from Pontypool petty sessions with assaulting his daughter, a girl of fifteen years of age, with criminal intent. Mr. Greenway appeared for the defendant. The evidence was of too disgusting a nature for publication. Defendant was convicted, ...

... SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. OF course the universal topic during the last few days has been the death of our late venerated Premier; and although this subject has been fully discussed in other columns of this paper, we cannot pass it over in our summary of events without a comment. It is our province to picture things as they come before our notice, and to epitomise the topics of the day, that ...

... We have received intelligence from London of the greatest gravity, if there be any foundation for it. According to a telegram published yesterday by the Times in its second edition, the Government of the United States having recently been informed by its consul at Alexandria that the Emperor of the French was organising Egyptian troops to serve in Mexico, a Cabinet Council was held immediately ...

... The will of Lady Harriet Forde, late of BTcoznbe- rectory, Kent, formerly of Holly mount, Devon, was proved in London, on the 13th ult., by the Rev. Pierce Butler, the nephew, and sole executor. The personalty was sworn under X12 000. Her ladyship was the daughter of the second Earl of Carriek, and died on the 25th of July last, at Folkestone, Kent, at the age of eighty-one. She was twice ...

... AMEEICA Ti. • A3 • n W YORK, OCT. 4. It is officially announced that the Public debt on the 30th September amounted to 2,745,000,000 dollars. Since the August statement the publio debt has been reduced nearly twelve million dollars, the interest millions gal tender nofces afloat six Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, in his message to the legislature, recommends the amendment of the franchise ...