... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... ^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, ...

... HENCEFORTH no one will doubt the valuable properties of I)ul5ariy's hedth-iestoring Revalenta Arabica Inva ills'and Infants' FOLd, to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had b en deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, wh'se health has been perfectly restored by it after Unity yeaisof nn-nccessfu medical tieatment We quote from ...

... 6.V CHRISTENING HYMNS. 8* I {1 stwi;ng of the son of Prince Christian and tlio >01 the f ua' Pn 1 U'-sd ay, at the commencement of the 30 epJ °N°wing hymn, composed by his Royal High- k» nee Consort, was snn :— -J& n_lifeB gay mora, ere sprightly youth jilt vice and folly is enslaved, ggfi w ^y thy Maker's glorious laiuo aW e 011 thy infant mind engraved. Tv*^ no sh.'tdes of sorrow cloud « ...

... st°D8, exclaims the Spectator, would only nIt is a quality to be economised 0Wasting it, till m-,n of the world, who ki. Itl,,t rather than reason what is important •S ^9 scarcely know how to follow him. Mr. Uj4is luite right in disliking the Reform Bill; t too much fuss about details, throws too $^ tliAS'e,ess *Qt0 ^is denunciation of evils inhe- S i His ^r*nc«ple of the proposal, and not in ...

... BETHEL CHAPEL.—The annual tea meeting was held on Mond-iy ta-.t, and alrh'.ngh the guests numbered upwards of six hundred, clie affair was managed very orderly and passed off to the satisfaction of all in- terested therein. A public meeting was held in the evening, when speeches suitable to the occasion were delivered, and music performed at intervals. SALEM CHAPEL -On Monday, 13th inst., the ...

... The Rill to amend the Inw of master and servant bears the short title of the Employer and Employed 'ontract of Service Act, 18r.ï. It provides that if a master or ser- vant shall refuse to fulfil any contract of service entered into between them, the party feeling aggrieved shall re- ceive compensation for any loss sustained through the breach or non-performance of the contract on having ...

... iy LOSDOU.—It appears from the Registrar Geneial s (Juartiily Return thnt tho mortality iu the AJetro- poiia was lower last week thau ii uny wek siiie, July 19, 18t 2, the deal lis 1 ting 193 fewer thau the estimated uuu.ber. The deaths registe'ed last week 1119, which is only 8 more thau iu 18o-, notwithstanding the vast increase in the population wh.cn must have taken place duiiug the last ...

... It may interest lome people to know that in the opinion of Air. J. Bates, of the Royal Grammar School, Colchester, the cause ot the cold weather this week is the interception of the sun's rays by meteorites. Six months ago we encountered a shower of meteorites, whose orbit aud periodical time of revolution around thesuu are thought to be slightly less than those of the earth and it this be ...

... THB CHAKGB O? MANSLAUQHTEU AAALSS* A COLLIBSY MAMAGBB.-On Tueliday, at tbe Blackwood petty session James Gregory wi« brought up on a charge of man- slaughter tc uihing the death of a workman at the Oalm- y-Glo pit. The deceased was engaged as a tituia^e labourer, and some days ago be fell down the shaft. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, against the ace^ed, on the ground ...