... the '• Red gate Inn, mnaf, Ivorites hailing from meeting. A goodly nuniKtre(^ *° ce'e^ra^e tbeir annual An excellent repast was °f the Irembers attended, dit to the hostea-s, Mrs *)^rved UP> which did great cre- they paraded tbe stre^°rgan' After Partakiog of it rifle band. The partv h i headed tbe Pontypridd satisfied with the nro„; • UP at 8n e8r,y hour wel them. Sl0n that had been prepared ...

... President Johnson having arranged to visit Boston, for the purpose of laying the foundation stone of a Free- mason's hall, the people took the opportunity of giving him a reception. The correspondent of the Times says :— The road along which the procession passed was lined with people. The maycn- of the city sat by the side of Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Seward and the staff followed in other ...

... A shocking murder was perpetrated at Dowlais on Sunday morning last. la Iron-street a private lodging- house is kept by a married conple, named William and Ann Murphy, the former about seventy years of age, em. ployed as a watchman in the works; the latter is about sixty years of age. Amongst other lodgers they had t. 0 single men, Darned Saunders Henderson, thirty- eight, and Thomas Watkins, ...

... ITEMS OF POLITICAL NEWS. The Spectator mentions acurious fact with reference to the recent division on the cumulative vote. Sixty-two per cent. of the majority who opposed the vote were men above 50 years of age, i. e., men whose political ideas are likely to be stereotyped while 70 per cent, of the minority were men below that age—men whose ideas are more likely to influence the future than ...

... OUT OF HARNESS TO PARIS. No. 2. Before quitting Oxford we desire to relate an anecdote which has an important bearing upon the rejection by the University of the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer and the election of Mr. Gathorne Hardy. Two gownsmen entered one evening an inn where their faces were not unfamiliar, and acquainted the host that they had just made a bet of a bottle of port upon an ...

... j, bill lias been introduced into the Victoria Cxf.r i^ent for the paj'ment of members. The sum pro- is £500 a year. French school-boy wrote to the. editor of tile co»'plain that they had no holiday on the distri- it 10n Prizes at the Palace of Industry. He thought t0(> bad. Well, well, my young friend, says the '-r, it IE very proper. The best way to celebrate the ai'ds of industry is to ...

... reguiatiug the county it is tluit t.cl ...

... This Board met on Saturday, E. W. David, Esq., in the The Master of the Industrial School reported 208 inmates, an increase of 45 on last year. Of these 123 were undergoing industrial traning.. The Industrial School Committee reported in approval of the scheme of instruction drawn up by the master. and which had been examined by the Rev. Canon Bruce and others. They advised the removal of the ...

... RATHEB TOO SHARP.—At t>,p a • i\r-* land Circuit) an action for trespass came before Mr jSt £ Lush. The plaintiff was a horse-dealer, and bought of the Shortly afterwards the plaintiff J trough, horse-stealing. While h tjTn oS°l The pUrntS, being '.t' stealing, brought this action. A 8 ...

... CUTTINGS FROM THE OWL. £ W,OOa aV ...

... AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. At the last meeting of the members of the Aeronautical Society, Dr. William Smyth, L.R.C.P., read a papet upon some experiments he had made upon the powers of flight of birds. He found that the wing of a strong pigeon strikes the air; with a force which will raise a pound weight one foot high in a minut* But directly the stroke has produced its greatest ...

... After being entertained at a magnificent banquet, followed by a concert, at Stafford House, his Imperial Majesty the Sultan honoured the president and vice- presidents of the Horticultural Society with a visit to their beautiful gardens. On Monday night the hour fixed for the arrival of visitors, of whom about 1,000 had been invited, was nine o'clock; before that time every place was occupied, ...