... The committee for promoting the working men s ex- cursion to Paris are desirous that some practical good should result from the visit, and have, therefore, pro- posed that a fund should be set apart for the purpose of awarding prizes to those excursionists who furnish the oest essays and reports on the subject of their visit. A selection of these is to be published in order that subscribers to ...

... RHYMNEY. r Jerusalem Chapel, Rhyrnney, has been duly registered for the solemnisation of marriages therein. ...

... For several years an old mansion called Penllwyn- mawr, the property of the Llanarth family, has been used as a chapel for the Roman Catholics, and lately some Sisters of Mercy have taken up their abode here, and we have heard that several more are coming. These ladies are very active. They visit the sick and needy, and they are to be seen as early as six o'clock in the morning on some errand ...

... CENEIADAETM DINAS LLUNDAIN. n d CYmNALIwYD yr l7eg gyfarfed blyimyddol y gangen Gygireig o'r gymdeithas uchod ar y lsf o* 'is hwn yn y Lecture Wall, Aldersgste street. b Yn el yr arferiad cyffredini, ymgyfarfu cyfeillion La chefnogwyr y ?? i gydyfed te yn y pryd. nawn; ae, am saith o'r gloch, deehreuwyd y cyfarfod - cyhoaedus. Y cadeirydd y tro hwia ydoedd Syr e 'thomas D. Lloyd, A.S. ). ...

... I atc _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ rh Y eernt yr VWa RclivhnacL- frlfbi alsynialtAL ciii t' ?? y gb a j thygrau cailyzgol. e AT Y PARCH. T. PHILLIPS, D. D., yteu rai o OnrachZiylyr achlyswrol y Feibol Cymdlithas. B3AUMH Syli, Mewn cyfarfod cyhoeddus a gynnaliwyd yn ddiwedd- ar yn un o drefydd Cymrn i ddadleu achos y FeMbU Gymdeithas, gwnaeth un o'r areithwyr osodladau tra dioithr i glustian a ...

... BONVILSTONE. ODD-FELLOWS FEAST—Last Saturday ^J^ers of the loyal Star of Glamorgan Lodge of Oad-iel- lows held their anniversary at the Old Post Inn. J ne procession being formed about 11 o'clock, and headed by the band of the 18th R.G.V. Cowbndge, proceeded to Lhmtrithyd church, where prayers were read and a suitable and most impressive sermon preached by the Rev. R. T. Tyler, M.A., Rector, ...

... O'rcd^iasfical The Grocers' Company have presented a donation of to the Curates' Augmentation Fund. WORCESTER CATHEDRAL.—The Rev. T. L. Claughton the new bishop of Rochester, has resigned his honorary canonry in Worcester Cathedral, and it has been conferred upon the Rev William Gover, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cam. bridge, principal of the Worcester, Lichfield, and Hereford Training ...

... It has been officially notified to the Fenian convict Doran that the sentence of death passed upon him for high treason has been commuted to penal servitude for life. The jury re- commended Doran to mercy, it will be recollected, on the ground that his connection with the conspiracy was compara- tively slender and recent when he took command of an armed party during the Dublin rising. No ...

... The transactions affected are, with rare exceptions, quite retail, and prices extremely dull. The planta- tions at home and on the Continent are making seasonable progress. ...

... It appears that the two Liberal members for this county, Mr. Talbot and Mr. Vivian, as well as the Liberal member for Swansea, Mr. Dillvvyn, have come to grief with their coustituancies on the question of the Reform Bill. A mass meeting of indignation-to borrow a transatlantic term—was held at the Music Hall, Swansea, to express what was almost tantamount to a vote of non-confidence in their ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Standard sends the following particulars of an extraordinary case which has just come before the Tribunal For some time past a man named Picardat has been living at Bobigny (Seine;, where he keeps what he calls an encyclopedia; consultation-room, and where he appears to have passed himself off among the rustics as a lawyer, an agent of the police, and various ...

... A. correspondent of a London paper complains that coming up to town from a station eight or ten miles trom London, he found six first-class carriages oc- cupied by as many solitary lady passengers, and nearly lost his tram whilst he was looking for a less hazardous compartment in which to seat himself. Now, as un- protected male travellers have, all things considered, not unreasonably, a ...