... IN the present day, when the fever of politics on the ques- tion of Reform is at his height, very few politicians take a sufficient time, or patience, to study the various social elements lying around the roots of all practical politics, which are imbedded in the soil of every day habits, those habits giving them their life-power. The speech of her Majesty the Queen, at the opening of ...

... MISCELLANEOUS. An EXPENSIVE\NEWSPAPER.—It is to be hoped that the Duke of ,Montrose, who is understood to be a very energetic man, will be able to make some more reasonable arrangements with the, French Post-office than exist at present. A few hours ago we received a twopenny newspaper, which was apparently insufficiently stamped, and for this paper no less a film than 5s. lid. was charged, ...

... YSTRAD GAS AND WATER COMPANY. fDissolution and Rc-incorporation of Ystrad Gas and Water Company, Limited. Regulation and increase of Capital Supply of Gas and Water ivithin certain parts of the Parish of Ystrady- fodicg, in the County of Glamorgan—New Works for supply of Gas and Water- Diver- sion and appropriation of Water-Purchase of Lands by compulsion or othei-icise-Potoer for public ...

... SURVEYOR WANTED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the above Board are in want of a SURVEYOR. He will be required to attend at an Office in the District Three days in every week, at a Salary of £70 a-year. He will not be allowed to exercise his profession otherwise than for public purposes within the District of tho Board, but there will be no objection to his doing so elsewhere. Applications to be ...

... The usual meeting of the Board took place on Thursday, G. Overton, Esq., in the chair. There were present Messrs. W. Jones. D. DWleiJ, G. Martin, E. \V. Scale, D. Williams, J. Jones, R. Harrison, and T. W. Evans. The minutes of the meeting were read and confirmed. SURVEYOR'S REPORTS. As there wa3 no meeting on the 5th inst., there were two reports to be read the first having been prepared for ...

... From Engineering. Dowlais The name of no other place in Britain so strongly and fully expresses the tremendous power of British iron and Brirish coal—a power which has made our country first among the nations of the earth. France has its Crusot, with its fourteen blast-furnaces, and giving em- ployment to ten thousand men Belgium has its Seraing, with five furnaces and extensive workshops, ...

... SERIOUS COLLIERY ACCIDENT. Shortly after six o'clock on Tuesday morning con- siderable consternation was created on the top of the Strafford Main Colliery, from its being apparent that some accident had taken place at the bottom, from the frequently repeated signals from those at the bottom to be drawn up. Quickly through Barnsley, from which the pit is distant rather more than two miles, and ...

... MERTHYR POLICE COURT. SATURDAY.—(Before II. JV. Lord, and E. J. Davies, Esqrs.) A DISCHARGE. Margaret Jones was charged with stealings two pair of shoes.—As no prosecutor appeared she was discharged. ROBBERY OF PIT ROPE AT PENTREBACH. John Morgan was brought up 0:1 remand charged with stealing 541bs of pit rope, value 16s., the property of the Plymouth Iron Co., at Merthyr, on the 21st; of ...

... His Honour Judge FALCONER.) The u ami sitting of the court was held in the Temper- anco before -fudge Falconer, during last week. The number of new plaints was 506 adjourned plaints, 4S summonses after judgment, 19i adj.mraed ditto, 20 equity ca*es, 3 total number of cases, 769. The following is an epitome of the cases of public in- terest — THE EISTEDDFOD Y C'i'.MRY AND ITS CUEDITOUS. Peter ...

... Ordert for the Week ending October 26, 1867. Triday (To day)—Yearly inspection—Corps will parade in full uniform at 8 p.m., at the Drill Hall. Every man must attend in order to obtain the capitation grant. Monday—Recruit Drill—8.30 p.m., Drill Hall. Wednesday—Company Drill-8.30 p.m.. Drill Hall—Undress Uniform. Friday— Recrnit Drill-8.30 p.m., Drill Hall. Members are reminded that Class Firing ...

... ^A FOOLISH ACT AND A GALLANT RESCUE.— Soon after tho Union screw steamer Briton had left the Cape of Good Hope, and while running under full sail aucl steam, a Government messenger, named Jones, an officer of the royal navy, jumped overboard in a fit of madness. Immediately a cry of A man overboard was raised, and a young man, named Dunn, the third officer of the Briton, at once snatched up a ...

... His Grace the Archbishop of Dubiiu left Kingstown on Monday for England. A Tynemonth coble was upset on Monday, and its only occupant, John Ryles, was drowned. THE BIRKENHEAD MURDEK.—The Birkenhead county magistra'e?, on Tuesday, finally committed for trial James Markey, who was charged with tho mur ler and robbery, under the most flagrant and daring cir- cumstances, of Hugh McKabon, a marine ...