... The disputes between employers and workmen in America are assuming quite as serious an importance as they presented in England and France. In the City article of the Times, thera are some observations sum- ming up the latest news on the subject which has reached this country. lhe trouble seems to be greater with the cotton and iron workers than any other class. In the New England mills the ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF HEALTH AND CORPO- RATION MEETINGS. SPECIAL BUSINESS. These meetings were, in accordance with previous notice, held at the Council Chamber, on Friday last, April 26. The chair, in the absence of the Mayor, who was from home, was occupied by Alderman Alexander. It was understood that some very im- portant special subjects had to come under considera- tion. The following members ...

... f arliamntBrs InttHigenxe. MONDAY. The House of Commons assembled this afternoon- j Gladstone was not present in the House during the eveP, Mr. Laing bave notice that in committee on the Refori^j he would move amendments to provide that boroughs population of less than 10,000 at the last census, ShOIJI return more than one member; that a third member be gi*en to boroughs now returning two ...

... GAS COMPANY.—A public meeting of the shareholders of the above company was held at the Town-hall, Llan- trisant, on Friday evening, when the following gentle- men were chosen as directors :—Messrs. W. Prichard, T. Evans, J. Lewis, M. T. Jones, R. Cooke, R. Evans, and D. Evans. Application has been made for plans, and specifications for the works, and there is every pro- bability that it will ...

... PARIS, April 26.—The Legislative body will hold its next sitting to-morrow. It is believed that M. Jules Favre's demand for leave to question the Go- vernment on the Luxemburg question will not be allowed. The Memorial Diplomati'p/e of to-day says:—It is believed in diplomatic circles in Vienna that the Duke de Grammont has brought from Paris the basis of an intimate understanding between ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN. SIR.-fiome of your readers are aware that in the last Report of the Llandaff Diocesan Home Mission there appeared a letter from Lord Dynevor, in which his Lordship expressed the great interest he felt in the operations of the mission, and placed £100 at the dis- posal of the Committee for the years 1866, 18G7, with an intimation of his purpose, should his life be ...

... Cardiff Cinies. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1867. THE ARMY PURCHASE SYSTEM. THE purchase of commissions in the army, which has been so long a vexed question in Parliament, was once more brought to the notice of the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, by Mr. Trevelyan; and once more the House determined to shelve the question-by a majority of 110 to 75. Such we take to be the meaning of the division—that ...

... IT is with great pleasure we call the attention of our readers to a full report in another column of the Annual Meeting of the Church Extension Society of our Diocese. Though the attendance at the meeting was small as compared with that of last year, the congratulatory tone of the Report, proving the zeal and earnestness that is working among us, is an assurance that personal attendance at the ...

... PONTYPRIDD INTELLIGENCE. NIGHTINGALE. —Through the stupidity of some indivi- duals. we have lost thevi>leasure of hearing the strains of this delightful bird. Wiiettier it heen killed, or driven away. we cannot tell; but by the lovers of nature's music it is very much missed. A CHILD DHOWNED.—On Tuesday evening, a child was seen playing by the canal side. It was missed during the night, and ...

... TUB CONTRACT CORPORATION.—M-. Church, the chief clerk of the Master of the Bolls yesterday gave permission in this matter to appear on a question as to Lloyds Bonds 111 connexion with a Welsh1 railway, limes. The Ow' says that a Royal proclamation is about to be issued requesting all loving subjects and peaceable citizens to abstain from joining the gathering which is announced to take place ...

... JPisqttuneou!). f QUEEN VICTORIA. AS AN AUTHOR.—The fact is not ge- nerally known, either here or in America, that her Majesty Queen Victoria has written a work entitled Leaves from a Journal in the Highlands, which consists of about 4 descriptive of her life at Balmoral and the neighbourhood. 1 lie work is illustrated by photographs and woodcuts from her Ma- jesty's sketches. It contains, ...

... MORTALITY AMOHG MOOE GAMK.—About the month of November last the grouse and black game on the moors in Ettrick and Yarrow were attacked by a disease which has thinned the stocks of both kinds of birds to a very great ex- tent, they having died in some places by the hundred. It is chiefly oil largely stocked moors that the disease prevails, having scarcely, if at all, shown itself where the ...