... During the past week a decided improvement has mani- fested itself in the shipping trade. A great many fine vessels have arrived, tonnage is becoming more plentiful, and things are looking very much better than they were. The Abys- sinian expedition has been the means of arising the rates of freight for Bombay, Simon's Bay, and Cape de Verds, &c., consideiably. We hear 20s. for vessels on the ...

... The Daily Telegraph has discovered that the Reform Bill contains an absurd blunder. We are not certain that the Telegraph has not made a blundering discovery. The celebrated clause conferring the borough suffrage on rate- p/iyers requires that the voter shall have paid all rates that have become payable up to the preceding 5th of January, and which have been demanded of him. The rates are to ...

... W BEREZOWSKIS SENTENCE. the dreadful revelations which have been at Sheffield still fresh in our minds, we are in a mood to regard the crime of Berezowski °* the criminal himself with any exceptional degree Merest; but as assassination, whether of era- J^ors or of ordinary plebeians, must ever be revolt- ? to every right-thinking man, the verdict and ^tence just recorded upon the Polish ...

... THE BOARD OF HEALTH BYE-LAWS. The Town Council met on Tuesday as a Board of Health, to consider the proposed amendment of the bye- laws. There were present the Mayor (C. W. David, Esq.), in the chair Alderman Alexander, and Council- lors Whiffen, Winstone, Elliott, Bowen, J. Bird, Jenkins, Flint, Evans, and Dr. Taylor. The MAYOR said he had convened the meeting in order that the bye-laws of ...

... RHYMNEY. r Jerusalem Chapel, Rhyrnney, has been duly registered for the solemnisation of marriages therein. ...

... For several years an old mansion called Penllwyn- mawr, the property of the Llanarth family, has been used as a chapel for the Roman Catholics, and lately some Sisters of Mercy have taken up their abode here, and we have heard that several more are coming. These ladies are very active. They visit the sick and needy, and they are to be seen as early as six o'clock in the morning on some errand ...

... PETTY SESSIONS.—On Saturday, (bafore J. S. Eatchelor, Esq.) Jacob Seults, Henrich Gordeiht, and Robert Kerbs, who deserted from the Prussian barque Mary Jane, Captain Beudy, were ordered to be sent on board. THE DOCK.—During the week twenty-five vessels sai'od, } and twenty-seven small craft arrived. Trade generally has been very dull, owing in a great measure to the irost. ...

... WEDNESDAY. Nearly the whole of the sitting in the House of Commons was taken up by the debate on Mr. Fawcett's Bin for the Education of Agricultural ChIldren, which came on for second reading. The hon. gentleman showed that at present children were taken away from school too early, either through the avarice, the ignorance, or the poverty of the parents, and against all these motives he ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF HEALTH. This Board met on Friday, July 20, present the Mayor in the chair, Alderman Pride, and Councillors Ingledew, Whiffen, Jones. Flint, Elliott, P Bird, Todd, Harvey, Wins one, Bowen, J. Bird, Jenkins and Spencer. The collector for St. John's reported collected during the month, and still due. In St. Mary's £1,2;)\ had had been collected, and £-1,674 was still outstanding. ...

... Lord Vane will shortly proceed to St. Petersburg to invest the Emperor of Russia with the Order of the Garter. DEATH OF THE ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE.— The Venerable Archdeacon of Carlisle expired on Satur- day evening last, at half-past six, after a long illness. The late archdeacon was formerly one of the assistant masters at Harrow, and until his promotion to the archdeaconry of Carlisle was ...

... The Public Ledger is in many ways one of the most remarkable and successful papers in America, and was first issued in 1838. It was started by three working printers, who gathered together all the money they had in the world, and found they had barely §5,000 to devote to the enterprise. It was an experiment, for they were without influential friends or support, and started their paper as a ...

... THE ENGLISH CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHURCH. On Monday evening a meeting was held at Stuart Hall in recognition of the Rev. James Mortimer, as minister of the English Calvinistic Methodist Church. Tea having been provided, with other refreshments, and partaken of by a numerous company, a public meeting was subsequently opened, at which the hall was well filled, the chair being taken by Mr. John ...