... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...