... Last week the scholars and others connected with the Baptist Sunday School, at Twn Gwyo, held their annual tea party. A meeting was held in the chapel at 2 p.m., and the lespected pastor, the Rev. William Haddock, was voted to the chair. The teachers and children sang and recited several pieces very creditably. At 3.30 all repaired to the schoolroom to tea, of which upwards of 100 partook. ...

... letters ta BATHING AT BARRY ISLAND. SlR,—My attention lias been called to a paragraph which appears in the Cardiff Times of August 17, under the head- ing Deplorable accident at Barry Island. You state that Mr. David Llewellyn was drowned there on the 12t'i August. I was on Barry Island on that day, and can state that Mr. Llewellyn was drowned in Porthkerry Bay, near Cold Knap. Had he bathed ...

... EXPERIMENTS WITH SAFETY LAMPS. The notice the experiments made at the Barnsley Gasworks last tending1 to shew that the best of lampa, including the- Genrdie/' were not to be depended upon, has caused ordinary amount of excitement throughout the South Yorkshire and other coal districts, and from all other parts of the country communications have been received by Mr. Hutchinson relative to them ...

... TEA PARTY.-The annual tea party of the Primitive Methodists took place on Monday, the 19th inst., in a field close by the station. The morning looked ra- ther dull and heavy, owing to which it was thought advisable to have it in the British Schoolroom but the rain cleared off, and the party was held in the field. The Primitive Methodists have bad an established cause here fot more than five ...

... THIRTY-FIVE YEARS' WHEAT IMPORTS.—The im- ports of wheat into the United Kingdom have been sub. ject to very great fluctuations during the last thirty-five years. In 1831 they amounted to 2,303,974 qrs., but they then rapidly declined until in 1835 they had sunk to fiG.!W5 qrs. Then they began to revive again, until in 18:m they bad attained a total of 2,875,427 qrs. In 1840 ther^ was a slight ...

... SUPPER.- On Monday evening, a supper took place at the Rose and Castle. The attendance was very fair. PRINTERS AT -On Saturday 'last, the staff of the Daily Leader paid a visit to Cae-philly, for the purpose of spending the day. The weather was not very favourrlble for outdoor amusement. The company dined at the Boar's Head Hotel. ODDFELLOW SHIP. ^Ve have been informed that the members of ...

... GENERAL NEWS. — -o METHYLATED SriRiTS.—After the 1st of October next the duty on lie.-uses to retailers of methylated spiijts is to be reduced tu ()R. per year. THE NEW Ir..o:, FIELD NEAR MAI.TON.—The Eastern Mornivg liars says there is now e\erv prospect that the working of the iron underlying the Castle Howard and the Kirkliam estates, a few miles west of Malton, will be at once proceeded ...

... THE FAIR.—Wednesday, the 21st inst., was the fair day in this village. Only two parties attended-an Irish- man brought a nice lot of sliekop, and Thomas Roberts a few lambs, but as there were neither pens nor buyers for them, they soon left the village again. A policeman and a dozen children were the sole representatives of the fair at twelve o'clock. NEARLY AN ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday, the 20th ...

... The following appeared in our SECOND EDITION last week. ...

... AWFUL Swell: think Neva knew a diigrace. NOTICLP OF QUESTION.-Mr. Whalley will irterrunt the all orer T nndnn .large coloured bills were posted Ks Jrga sssrsfts will be one more instance of a tW* be called) there doUrto'ra»mma^whrt^>L°GY' P^8B7 (who has lamed her vou walk Uke that Sprsii?ed h ankle): Why do Save hurt my foot, Cissy?1^^™ ?,tc^U8e dust come out ? And did all the saw- of ^kn?w ...

... At the Cricklacie Petty Sessions an elderly matron named Eliza Glass, the wife of William Glass, complained to the sitting magistrates that shehad been'' upset by her friends, who had met at the Leigh for that purpose. She stated that she lived at Purton Stoke with her husband, and that her father, with others of her relatives, lived in an adjoining house. Some time ago her father lost, or ...

... According to the Manchester Guardian, Mr. Morier, who some days ago was telegraphed for by the Foreign Ofece, has arrived in London from Vienna and he has since been engaged in consultation with the Foreign Secretary and the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, with the view of endeavouring, if possible, to retrieve at the last moment the consequences of past errors of omis- sion aud ...