... 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. ...

... SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1867. LOCAL TOPICS- OUR local reports this week are lengthy and nume- rous, but present very few points which require explanatory comment. The Quarter Sessions wisely adopted the Chairman's proposal to pay the magistrates' clerks hereafter by salary, and approved a recommendation of the Finance Committee, which was Bome months ago suggested in these columns, that in future ...

... Passing through Weovoe OA SA7 V°WER> prised to hear the old CHURCH ?RDAY ^AST, WE were sur- bom—bup, bup—bim, BOM • A J NGING OUT BIM, they were ringing in honour NFTV,°N E0(lUIRJ FOUND THAT Jenner, Esq., with Miss JON WEEDING of Algernon two sound specimens, and A CF8' U C°osist of not with ropes, but by STR;I,;„,AC, ODEJ and are rung, hammer. THEM with some sort of The Rev. Charles Jenner ...

... EPAMINBNDAS, THEMISTOCLES. AND PERICLES. X LordvC«rns in the classical allusion kl & 011 the Reform Bill was com- tha followmg IetteA^ffiS0 BUndS TO THB EDITOR OF THE TIMES. sad slip of Lord Cairns last night to make out that Epanunondas ruled Athens. He lived a little after my time, and was better known at Thebes than in Athenian circles. But are you quite right in your correction, when .u? ...

... 1n rebuilding a house in the village of Gex- ivr, the Courrier da Sas-Rhin, the workmen di=.ercd under one of the inner door-steps an earthern containing fifty-two gold coins and eighty-four nilver ones. They date back three centuries the former 'are thinner than our present gold pieces, and the latter ure about the size of the old six-franc piece. A thousand francs has been offered for this ...

... The annual festival of parish choirs took place at the cathedral church of Saints Peter and Paul, Llandaff, on Wednesday. This year the anniversary celebration was entrusted to the Welsh choir*, three years having elapsed since the last Welsh festival. The interest ex- cited in the diocese was not inferior t,) that taken in either of the two intervening English festivals. The usual magnificent ...

... BRINTIRION SUNDAY SCHOOL.—On Monday last, the members of the Brintirion Welsh Calvinistic Metbo- iist Sunday School, were liberally treated with tea and lake, and a good number sat down to partake of the sheering cup. The tea was served to them in the chapel. After tea, a procession was formed, and the company marched to an adjoining field, by the kind permission )f Mr. E. Thomas, Tydraw, ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. (Before the MAYOR, R. O. JONES, Esq., and Alderman PRIDE). ASSAULT.—Michael Dempsey was charged with having assaulted John Donovan, a shoeblack. Complainant stated that the prisoner asked him to clean his boots, and he did so. Just as he finished, a policeman was coming, and the prisoner ran off. Complainant followed and asked for his penny, but prisoner ...

... tJ L COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. City Editor publishes a letter addressed by 'titer(itlaird to Lord Redesdale on railway affairs. The Ste £ approve P'ac'n £ railways under Government -and more of confiscating the property ruPt lines. The difficulty of railway companies at **Hie8 18 Y1.6 renewal of loans. This is felt by all com- > and it falls with special severity on those whose &t a discount. Lord ...

... The committee of the House of Lords have decided against the creation of pre-preference stocks. This virtually puts an end to several financial schemes before Parlia- ment. The example of the Brighton directors will have to be followed by other embarrassed companies. Present necessities must be met by the issue of additional ordinary stock, or liabilities must be diminished by the instalments ...

... An adjourned inquest on the body ot Martha Thomas, which was found in an abandoned pit, and of causing whose death a man named Protheroe is suspected, was held on Wednesday. Mr. Plews appeared for the rela- tives of the deceased. The evidence adduced was as follows David Thomas said I work at a flue at Coed.cao.ddu, for the Rhymney Iron Company. I do not know Protheroe to speak to him. I have ...