... fdttr to THE TAFF VALE FIREMEN. SIR,—In your impression of the 18th inst, you were pleased to set in ciroulat.on a report relative to the Drivers and Firemen on the Titif VIlla Railway, to say the least of which is that it is uutiue from beginning to end, find we should be very glad to know your authority tlr such a fabrication, for wo are pleased to look back from the com- menccmsnt of the ...

... 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 ...

... PRESENTATION TO MR. A. J. MORRIS, AT ABERDARE. ON Tuesday evening, Mr. Arthur J. Morris, of the Plymouth Iron Works, Merthyr, was presented with a splendid testimonial, in the St. Fagan's School-room, Aber- dare, kindly lent for the occasion by the Rev. Mr. Jenkin, Mr. Morris had for a number of years been connected with the Abernant Iron Company, as cashier at Llwydeoed. For some years, too, ...

... t is particularly requested that all remittances be made to the TRUSTEES, Herald Office,High-street. ...

... PROOESBION OF THE TIVY-SIDE VOLUNTARY CLUB-^ The members of the above club, consisting of the men of Kenarth, Llechryd, and Cilgerran, formed in Prj\j cession on Saturday last. The object in view was present Asa J.Evans, Esq, solicitor, Cardigan, wit jg, splendid salmon, weighing upwards of fourteen ponflo ...

... 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 ...

... PARIS, May 24.—The Prussian Government have given their adhesion to the proposed code of international maritime signals. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, May 24.—A telegram received here states that the town Brody, 011 the frontier of Austrian Galicia, a well-known commercial depot, has been in flames since yesterday. The conflagration is stated to have assumed large dimensions. THE LUXEMBURG TREATY. PARIS, ...

... MONDAY.—(Before R. O. Jones, Esq., and Griffith Phillips, Esq.) CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH.—Mary Ann Evans, cook in the employ of Dr. Krapp, the Austriau Consul, was charged with the above offence. Sergeant Price stated that from information given him he visited the Doctor's house in Charles-street and arrested the prisouer, who said she had given birth to a child. It was shown by examination that ...

... IT is stated that Lord Malme^bury will act as the colleague of Lord Stanley at the Conference on Luxemburg. THE Athenaeum- is sorry to hear from Nice that Lord Brougham is very ill-it is feared past hope. Mr. J. POPE HENfESaY, late M P. for the King's County, has been (according to the ll.rjjre.S,V) offered the Governorship 01 Labuan and Consul-Generalship of Borneo. The salary of lhejoint ...

... THE TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE IN NEW- CASTLE. THIRTY PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO BE DROWNED. We publish in the seventh page a brief telegram that an accident had happened at Newcastle-on-Tyiie by which a large number of persons had been pre- cipitated into the river, and that the loss of life must be considerable. We now quote the details from the Newcastle Daily Journal of Tuesday:— Owing to the boat race ...

... After mature consideration of the respective merits and advantages of a friendly balcony in Park-lane, and another in Connaught-terrace, from which I could su vey the doings of Mr. Beales and his Men of London r in Hyde-park, with that same luxury of Sua re JIll Ii Mayno feeling with which I viewed their progress along Pall-mall Oil more than one occasion from my Club- house window, I deemed ...

... LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET.—MONDAY. The supply of cattle was less than on Monday last, but that of sheep larger, with a slow sale of both, without much change in prices. ...