... INTERESTING TO LADIES.—At this season of the year the important process of bleaching and dressing Laces and Linen for Spring and Summer wear commences, we would therefore paticuiarly call the attention of our fair readers to the GLEM- FIELD STARCH, an article of primary importance in the get- ing up of these articles. The GLENEIELD STARCH is spe- cially manufactured for family use, and such is ...

... Commodore Hillyar, in a letter dated at Bombay, 13th March last, reports that H.M.S. Wasp had returned to Zanzibar from Quiloa, with Mr. Seward, H.M.'s acting Political Resident at Zanzibar, and states that the information which that officer had been able to obtain respecting the reported death of Dr. Livingstone was chiefly of a confirmatory nature. The Times of India of the 13th of March ...

... THE death of the Bishop of Rochester took place sud- denly at 10 o'clock on Saturday night; and places at Lord Derby's disposal the first bishopric he has had to fill up during his present premiership. On the last oc- casion of his lordship being in power, the only see to which lie had to appoint was that of Bangor. The late Bishop of Rochester was to have preached at the Chapel Royal, St. ...

... RELIGIOUS SERVICES.—On Thursday evening preced- ing Good Friday, and all day Good Friday, the Cal. vinistic Methodists held meetings in their chapel, when the following ministers preached eloquent and impres- sive sermons to large congregations :-Rev. W. Evans, Tonyrefail; Rev. Mr. Matthews, Canton; Rev. Samuel Jones, Merthyr; and Rev. Ebenezer Jones, Neath. ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.—On Easter ...

... THE DocK.—Seventeen vessels arrived during the week and fourteen sailed. Among the arrivals were several steamers, and a quantity of iron ore and Spanish grass was brought into the dock by the In- trepid. Un Sunday, the 2lst instant, about 3.30, a Portuguese schooner was seen to get on the Cardiff sands. A s rong wind was blowing, and the vessel rolled very heavily. The signal gun was fired ...

... MISSIONS TO SEAMEN. A meeting in aid of missions to seamen at this port was held on Tuesday evening at the Town Hall. The attendance was moderate. The Lord Bishop of Llan- daff presided. The Rev. Canon Morgan opened the meeting by prayer. The BISHOP began the proceedings by a speech of considerable length. He commenced by saying that he had so aften presided at the meetings of this society ...

... SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1867. COUNTRY FOOTPATHS. ONE of the numerous cases which have come before the Police Court during the week, suggests for con- sideration a subject of much more real than apparent importance to the people of Cardiff. We refer to the extreme scarcity of field footpaths in the environs of the town, their great value in a recreative point of view, and the imminent danger which ...

... THE CARPENTERS' STRIKE, TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN. Sir—Truth is stronger than fiction. It always has been, and probably always will be, to the end of the chapter of human experience. The diversified, contradictory, and anomalous scenes that in the aggregate form the sum total of the serious drama of life, are but imperfectly understood and interpreted by even the wisest and most. gifted ...

... On Saturday a large deputation representing the Constitu- tional Associations of Lancashire was received by the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer at Downing-street. Its object was to offer support and sympathy to her Majesty's Government and to assure the right hon. gentleman that so far as South Lan- cashire is concerned the majority of the inhabitants do not coincide in the views expressed by ...

... The Rev. C. White's Repentance in our next. A large mass of district intelligence is held over in consequence of the lengthened report of the British School Public Meeting. An article on the same subject is also held over. History of Merthyr.—Next week. G&- Our Correspondents are requested to favour us with their communications as early in the week as possible, as we are obliged, every week ...

... We have very little doubt that if either the news- papers or the telegraph company cannot make arrange- ments to have the European news collated, or con- densed, or boiled down, or whatever it is that telegraph operators do to news, by more competent persons than those who now perform the duty, it will be generally agreed a year or two hence, that the cable not, only does not fulfil its ...

... l/^7N1AJ,*IS>I«Ir5r North British Daily Mail says :— The four men connected with the midnight arming at Mossend were on Saturday brought before Sheriff Logie, and after, emitting declarations, were in the meantime committed t, prison. We understand they all deny having any connection with the movement and state that, being turned out of the different public-houses in the usual course by the ...