... WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS ?— Mr M. Ennor writes thus to the Mining Journal :-There is nothing strange or mysterious in these occurrences, for as the mines get deep such large spaces are opened that there is a waut of a sufficient current of air to keep pace with them. Large and deep mines will continue to ex- plode, until men will not be found to work in them. If the tide once ...

... TYDEE PF-THESDA BAPTIST CAPEL --On evening, t e 25.h ul> the Rev. !j. D Eiarirds, the muoh ret- peeted minister of the abo»t-n aued chapel d;- ivtred It most telling address on th- ! ...

... NEWPORT, SATURDAY, DEC. 7, 1867. IT will gratify our Newport readers to be in- formed that the prospects of the Alexandra Dock Company are brightening. Probably no public undertaking has been started in this locality about which a more wide-spread inte- rest has prevailed; and although it ha3 been understood from the first that the scheme was of a thoroughly bona fide character, yet the delay ...

... POPULAR READINGS.—The fourth series of these readings were given AT the Temperance Hall. There was a fair attendance. Mr. John J. Jones was voted to the chair, in the absence of Mr. David Thomas. We append a copy of the programme, slightly altered Song and chorus— Dros y Barged .R. B. Edwards. Reading— Y Baban diwrnod oed .Thomas Thomas. Song- A motto for every mau William Lewis. Reading- ...

... FENIAN PURCHASES or ARMS.—We reported on Mon- day the examination of a man who gave his name as Pherson, and who was arrested last week in Man- chester with a quantity of revolrsrs in his possession supposed to be intendad for Fenian conspirators. Pre- viously to the attack on the Manchester prison van And the murder of Sergeant Brett, a Lumber of pistole were bought in Birmingham by ...

... Mr It M. Partiiilge, St VVoollos Pi,teo, and 109, Com- mor. MOHHIB livnns and Sou, Old Masonic Hall, and lirook House, LlaotarnHm Mr. VV illi .m Graham, Savings Bank Chambers Mr James (jrabam, Victoria Hall Chambers Mr Joseph Bothouiluy, Doek-htreet Messrs Vennor and Statlard. 4, Llanarth-street Mt J. H.mdy, 17. Dock-street Mr Edgar Morgan, 42 Llanaith-street « Mr T. Cornei, 42 Commercial ...

... FARMERS' DEMONSTRATION AGAINST RliUALISM. At meeting of the Blandford Agricultura Society, list week, at which, with other distin- guished giests, the Rev. Lord Sydney G. Osborne (S. G. 0.) was present, the Rev. J. R. Quirk, in responding: to the toast of The bishop and the clergy of the diocese, spoke on the ritualistic topic, and observed that a debt of gratitude was due from them to the ...

... BATH AND WESr OF ENGLAHD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The Council of this important Society have determined to hold their next meeting at Fal- mouth, during the Whitsan week, 1868. From the Stock Prize Sheet just issued, it appears that the Society offers no less than £1,150 in prizes for Cat- tle and Poultry, and as there is every reason to hope that all restrictions on Cattle traffic willshortly ...

... MONMOUTH. The Atheneum Readings were opened last week with the following. Mr. Champney Powell took the Opening part thm FBIBNDS, townsmen, men of Monmonth, lend Your ears To one who craves your patience for a minute. I come to plead a causa, and not to praise it,- The pleasant readings of the years gone by! Is there no voice to speak a word for them No voice but mine to mourn that they are ...

... The notices of intended application to Parliament for railway Bills in the Session of 1868 are 109, as com- pared with 171 for 1867, 450 for 1866, 415 for 1865, and 360 for 1864. Considering the protracted effects of the panic of May, 1866, and the continued want of confidence in railway enterpraise and railway securities gsnrrally, it seems surprising that so many notioes for the ...

... ANNIVERSARY SUPPER, OF COURT ROBIN H OOD.- On Wednesday, the 27th ult., Court Robin Hood, 2,159, celebrated their 21sc anniversary in the spa- cious club-rqorn at the Globe Inn. Host Spooner, assisted by his amiable spouse, set before about 60 guests, as substantial and bountiful a spread as any one could wish to enjoy. There were beef (roast and boiled), roasting-pig, mutton, hare, tongues, a ...

... COMMITMENTS TO USK PRIBON — Nov. 29-John Wainwright, by Rev James Farquhar, for destroying his own [clothes whilst being relieved in the Union Work- house at Abergavenny, on 26th November, 1867, twenty. one days' hard labour. Nov. 30-William Arnold, by Rev J. C. Llewellin, for vagrancy at Panteg, on the 29th November, 1867, seven days' hard labour. Nov. 30— Jemima Cullen, by E. D. Williams, ...