... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... a PETY SESSIONS, Friday, May 17.-Before J. Wviine ECyton, Esq., chaiiman; E. Pemberton, Esq., and Capt. alCooke. -al. Application by Turnpike Road Trustees.-11r. Ed. at Jones, clerk to the Flint, Holywell, and Ifostyn ,d s)istrict of Roads, applied for orders against the town- it ship of Llwynegryn, for £7 14s. 5id., and the Local ,a Board of IMNdd for £7 10s. 4d. as their moiety for the it ...

... CLEFYD AR IZIR Y MYNYDD. YR oeddym yn gwbl barod i wybod fod yr byn a ei elwir Clefyd ieir y lMynydd, yn Ilawer mwy dinys- H triol yn ei ?? nag yr oedd yr adroddiadau el a gyhoeddid wedi ein harwain i greau: Darf a i ni a( hefyd dystio fod y clefyd, bydded y peth a fo, yn yV fwy marwol yn ei effeithiau na'r clefyd y blynydd dl oedd diweddar: ac ychwaneg na hyny nad yw rt mewn dim yn tebyga ...

... The Bishop of Salisbury held his triennial Visitation at Bridport on Thursday in last week, when there was a large attendance of clergy and churchwardens. The Charge consists principally of a vindication of these doctrines 1, that certain men have had intrusted to them by God, as fellow-workers with Him, supernatural powers and preroga- tives. 2, that God had been pleased to give to these His ...

... I\:fARRIAGES,& DEATHS. O BIRTHS. the w*f 'nst> at Spring Gardens, Haverfordwest, wife of William Davies, Esq, solicitor, of a son. in f-v *nat' at Church Lane, St. Thomas Green, ahn 18 *?wn» the wife of Mr Charles Baillieu, boot and maker, of a son; Offi Q ^'le *nst' the wife of Mr John Davies, Police p °f the Pembrokeshire Constabulary, stationed at ^broke Dock, of a daughter. ^{j a ^2th inst ...

... ^j?oi;tiw) Jntctligencij. THE Sporting Gazette says there is no truth whatever in the report that Van Amburgh has been purchased by Mr. Chaplin.—Mr. H. Coventry' horses will shortly he trained by Dover, at Ilsh:y,and the t'5,0 '0 match between Lord Lyon and Viriilis will, in all probability, fall through. The Duke of Hamilton has purchased Coniberton, (Jams, and King Allred from Colonel Knox, ...