... A Cabinet Council w is hoi 1 on S'i'nr lay at the official residence of theEnrl of Derby, Downing-street. 'lhe receipts by the Royal Agricultural Society, at their meeting at Bury St. Edmunds, have amounted to £ 4,160 against £ '0,267 at Plymouth in 1865. Earl Beauchamp has been appointed to the Under- Secretaryshinof the Home Office, vacate 1 by the Earl of Belmore, on his appointment to be ...

... O'rcdcsiiasficat jntfUigcncc. CONSECRATION OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH, KENSINGTON. -On Saturday the Bishop of London consecrated the new church of St. Peter's, Kensington. The new church, which is a spacious and handsome structure, is situated in Onslow Gar- dens, and is designed for a rapidly growing district. THE REV. HENKY CHRISTOPHERSON, who has for many years held a very high position as a ...

... Late on Sunday evening a most shocking suicide was committed at Derby. A girl, sixteen years of age, named Maria Smith, residing with her parents, had been keeping company for some time past with a young man in that town, and from some unexplained cause a slight disagreement had arisen between them. The re- sult was that the unfortunate creature had been in a low state of mind, and early on ...

... of the working classes being about to swamp °ther classes in the representation—surely forget the county franchise is still far from a demo- nic one; and considering that twenty-five seats ^ave been taken from household suffrage voters to e given to £ 12 county electors, it cannot be said the Bill has provided no counterpoise to the extension of the borough franchise. Twenty- j*Ve members, be ...

... LLANDAFF. PETTY SESSIONS.—MONDAY. (Before T. W. BOOKER and J. H. INSOLE, Esqrs.) CATTLE REGULATIONS.—William Lewis, of Lanmaes, was ordered to pay costs for having, on the 4th inst., removed a cow and calf on the public road without a proper form of declaration. NUISANCE AT GRANGETOWN.—David Griffiths, of Pen- coed. was summoned for maintaining a nuisance, in the shape of two foul privies, on ...

... HEREFORD. The quaint old wooden-fronted house near the palace of the Bishops of Herefor where Nell Gwyono was lorn and lived, has been entirely swept away. Every visitor to Hereford used to call to see it, but it has proved obnoxious to an eoctesiastieal dignitary, and has be; n in consequence entirely demolished. The bouse was pretty, filled in with quaint old wooden piles, and in King ...

... CARMABTHENSHIBE AND GLAMOBGANSHIRE ENGLISH BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.—The annual meetings of this Association were held in Bethany Chapel, Cardiff, on Wednesday and Thurs- day last. The services commenced by a sermon, by the Rev. R. Davies, of Maesteg, on Wednesday. On Thursday, the conference of delegates was held, when the Rev. R Griffiths was chosen moderator. The various matters of business were ...

... PEDESTRIANIsM.-La;,t week, a man of the name of William Davies, a collier, residing on Caerphilly moun- ain, offered to walk to Cardiff and back, nearly 15 miles, n three hours; and a bet was made of £5. The match igainst time came off on Monday morning. He started rom Caerphilly at nine o'clock in the morning, and talked to the Rose and Crown, Cardiff, and he completed )is task within the ...

... M'NAMAIIA V. M'NAMARA AND METCALFE. This was a suit by the husband for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent. He also asked for damages. The adul- tery was denied by the wife and the co respondent, and a counter charge against the petitioner was made. Mr. Serjeant Tindal Atkinson and Mr. Kemp were counsel for the petitioner; Dr. Spinks, Q.C,. and ...

... The Advertiser states that the paragraph which has been going the round of the journals, to the effect that tho Lords mean to reject the lodger^ franchise in the Reform Bill, is wholly without foundation. Mr. Richard Fothergill has just issued an address to the electors of the United Borough of Merthyr Tydvii, Vaynor, and Aberdare, in which he offers hiiyself as a candidate for the additional ...

... COMMERCIAL A TT.S The retirenient of Mr. Laing from te Great Ea.lway Comp.'soT, nn,l the leU«r of Mr. M,, Mr. _Owcn, prepareil the p„b,io ,t Receiver. I hat l.a« now tak ...

... Es.-At the prize drawing which took and 25th ult., at St. Mary's Industrial Dublin, two prizes were obtained by J, i.e., a pair of kid gloves, value 4s., Richard Jones, draper and grocer, who purchased only one ticket. The hook on history, well bound, with gilt This was won by Mr. I). Bowen, ets cost 6,1. each. -A meeting was held last week by gen- Ystrad, including Dr. Gordon, Messrs. ...