... 2Thq & J$tei[thp (Guardian CARDIFF, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1867. THE GOVERNMENT AND REFORM. SINCE we last wrote on this subject strange and mortifying events have come to pass. The United Cabinet, and compact phalanx of Con- servatives with which we hoped Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI would have been enabled to settle the Reform question, have been rudely shaken, and while the former has been recon- ...

... The Solicitors' Journal understands that, by an arrange- ment between the contending parties in Be Overend, Gurney, arjd Co-, the appeal on the two motions is to be carried direct to the House of Lords, go that the expense of one intermediate appeal may be spared. A RIGHT COSCLUSIOX.—The subject debated last Tuesday evening at the Cambridge University Union Society was, That, in the opinion of ...

... ANAGRAM. Mr. Disraeli finds fault with the ana- gram of last week, W illiam Ewart Gladstone I, wise Mr. G, want to lead all, and points out that his own name furnishes one more direct and incisive— I lead, sir.—Oni. ...

... LONDON, Monday, March 25. FRANCE. Much surprise is expressed in Paris at the persist- ent silence of the Moniteur respecting the treaties between Prussia aud the Southern States, ever since the publication of which the country has been in a fever of excitement. On Saturday the official gazette of Berlin published the text of the trea y between Prussia and Wurtemburg, the terms of which are the ...

... Lord Carrington has announced his intention of pay- ing, in three instalments, to his tenants, the entire amount of their losses from cattle-plague. His lordship has already paid the first instalment. THE ACCIDENT INSURANCE T OMPAKY, Limited, is formed, with a most respectable direction, tor the purpose ot con- tinuing the accident portion of the business ot the late Accidental and Marine ...

... LONDON, Monday, March 4. All Paris is in a state of excitement on account of an article in the Liberie, by M. Emilede Girardin, attack- ing and criticising the speech of M. Rouher in the Corps Legislatif. in answer to M. Julves Favre. M. de Girardin challenges and disproves the assertion of M. Rouher as to the brighter destinies of the country by many instances other defeat and failure in ...

... foreign UttsccttaoiB. SANGUINE CACULATIONS.—Paris, it is expected will attract at least a million of visitors during the course of the Exhibition. Admitting that every foreigner expends au average of five hundred francs while he stays, that makes five hundred millions, which in the space of a few months will circulate and fructify.—Paris Paper. Ax AMUSIXG SC-EXE.—A ludicrous scene occurred in ...

... Now that so much attention is being paid to the great work of education the proportion of men and women in different parts of Great Briton who were able to sign their names to the marriage register merits attention, seeing that it points out the localities where edcuational effort should be more particularly directed. The reports of the Registrar-General show that the value of this test has ...

... Mr. II. W. Tyler, rather a high authority on railway matters, has written a letter to the Times, in which, after expressing his opinion that Mr. Watkin's Bill will not meet the necessities of the present conjuncture, he 8uggests legislation which he thinks will be far more successful. He says :— The three things which are now most required in the Interest of railway companies, in that of their ...

... House of Commons. The select committee appointed to consider the merits of this bill mot again on Friday. The com- mittee consisted of Lord George Cavendish, (in the chair), Mr. Wyvile, Mr. Allen Bathurst, and Mr. H. E. Surtees. Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Q.C., and Mr. Clarke ap- peared for the promoters of the bill, and Mr. David- son and Mr. Granville Somerset appeared for the only petitioners ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The Rhondda Valley and Hirwain Junction Railway l, ,5ame ,°.n 8 day in Lord Lifford's Committee, but the petitions in opposition having been withdrawn on satisfactory arrangements, it was referred to Com- mittee on unopposed Bills in Lord Redesdale's room. HOUSE OF LORDS.—LA.ST NIGHT. Tin House of Lords was occupied with a discussion on the position of the Colonial ...

... One of the most singular exhibitions ever offered to the curiosity of the British public is now to be witnessed at St. Martin's Hall. In the words of an advertisement the Japanese troupe have arrived, and the eleven members composing it perform nightly before an as- sembly of spectators not so numerous, to judge from a single occasion, as one would have expected. The exhi- bitors are ...