... LAW OF STRIKES.—In Seotlrmd the laiv affecting strikes is being put in force with rigour. A. Scotch sheriff has sentencel two members of an amalgamated shoemakers' society to seven days' imprisonment for molesting and obstructing a non- society man by intimating to his employers that unless be contributed to the fund he must be dismissed, otherwise the rest of the workmen, members of an ...

... EXPLOSION OX BOVJID A NEWCASTLE STKAJIEE.— ON Sunday morning, at six o'clock, a terrible explosion occurred on board the screw steamer Mary Nixon, of Newcastle, Brown, master, from Cardiftjbound toUam- burg, with tt cargo of coal, being at tho time about 37 miles-offthe. Start. The oxplosiou, which was eaused by the accumulation of gas in the hold, occurred in the j fireman's berth, and blew ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. TilE CYF.\HTiiF.\ B.\XD,Thi far-famed band is to appear at the Flower Show, a.t Cardiff, which- will take place in the course of the ensuing month. BOARD or —At the Board meeting, on Saturday, there was no business of public interest. In reply to the Rector, wlw asked whether Protestant Churchmen were allowed the same privilege as Protestant Dissenters in attending their ...

... RHYMNEY INTELLIGENCE. THE INDEPENDENTS AND T H E I li CYMMANFA. Tins neighbourhood has had a preachiug- treat. The Independents have hail their assembly,^or Lifinnitotftt, in this neighbourhood. EXPECTATION has for a long time been throbbing its sensibilities in • expectation of it. lti'MOUi has spread its mystic telegrams respecting th\ ministers who were to move the audience into ...

... in the day. and in the evening he ordered prisoner to take some old castings t«> Mr. Matthew John's foundry. Pri- boner axked if they gave him the money should he bring it down Witness told him yen. Primmer did nut return, and the following morning, as witness was up to the reservoir lishing, he saw prisoner near the Lord ftaglau. He said. I was rather too late to weigh the iron last night, ...

... PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S. — Portrait Albums of the best make, a choice o. 3,' 00 writing-cases, diessing- cases, travelling-bags, envelope-cases, blotting-books, ink- stands, desks, book-stides, work-boxes, tea-caddies, ladies- hand-bags and reticules, card-cases, purses, scent-bottles, card baskets, pocket books, &c. CEOQUET IDS., 18s., 30s., 42s., and 63s. the set. Sent car- iage paid ...

... On Saturday, the Lords Justices heard an appeal from an order of Mr. Commissioner Perry at Liverpool, dated the 3rd of June last, whereby he suspended the order of discharge of Mr. Gustavus Heyn for twelve months, without protection for six months. It appear- ed that Mr. Gustavus Heyn carried on 1business^at Liverpool with his brother, from the year 1855 until the end of June, 1866, when they ...

... The monthly meeting of this Committee was held as usual at the Town-hall, Cardiff, ou Wednesday last. The following members were present:—John Bird, Esq., deputy Mayor, in the chair, in the absence of the Mayor from home there were also present Aldermen Reece and Watkins, Councillors P. Bird, Whiffen, Bowen, Flint, and Harvey. The minutes of the last meeting were read. The monthly report ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given, that the County Roads Board of the County of Glamorgan, will, at their next Meeting, to be holden at the CASTLE HOTEL, NEATH, on WEDNESRAY, the 31st day of JULY, 1867, at 11 a.m., proceed to the Appointment of a Surveyor for the Llandaff Highway District No. 1. The Salary is £ 130 a year. The Surveyor will be re- quired to keep a Horse, and devote his ...

... London UxiVKUsitr.—Mr. Edwin John Wolfe, late master of the Gellifaelog British School, Dowlais, has suc- cessfully passed the Matriculation examination of the above university. Death-bed Fepentaxce.—The above was the subject of a sermon delivered on Sunday last by the Hector of Merthyr, tlvfKev. J. Griffith. In the course of his sermon betook occasion to reply to the arguments brought ...

... .Iddrcsiifs. TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE UXITED BOROUGH OF Merthyr-Tydvil, Vaynor, and Aberdare, GENTLEMEN,-The House of Commons having agreed unanimously to accord to our Borough a Second Representative, this just measure may be con. sidered as ensured, and, encouraged by the flattering requisitions I have received from so large and influ- ential a proportion of the Constituency, I ...

... WIXE, SPIRITS, AXD BEER LICENSES GUAXTED IX lStitj. Upon the motion of Mr. Ayrton, a return has just been issued from the House of Commons of the number of licenses granted by the Board of inland Revenue within every city and borough, and within the county beyond the limits thereof, in England and Wales in 186G dis- tinguishing licenses under the Certificates of Justices of the Peace under the ...