... A letter from Faenza, dated 27th August, states that the robberies, violence, and assassinations were daily on the increase. On the 24th, between Faenza and Forli, more than twelve highway robberies took place on the same day above thirty persons were also robbed of all they had between Faenza and Brisigheila. The authorities asked for a reinforcement of gendarmerie, but none were sent and the ...

... Some statistics which have lately been published of bush ran,'ing in New South Wales during the last few years show to what an extent this institution has grown in that colony. Since the month of June, 1864, a period of three years, eleven members of the police have been shot dead by bushrangers, and sixteen wounded by firearms in attempts to capture them. Fifteen other persons have also been ...

... A letter from Lisle gives the subjoined details :— When the Empress went to the prison of Loos her Majesty visited the Penitentiary in its most minute details, inquiring into everything—the sanitary state, dietary system, and the general spirit of the inmates nothing indeed escaped her investigations. The Empress excited astonishment at the precision and multiplicity of her questions on the ...

... INTEMPERANCE A 7 snare in reply to two blicr* irhirJi appeared in 1 your columns last r-.cek. ] he-irhiy nciprocfjie. should done tl) slem the alarming increase of But, Sir, a.k, is that, object, to > be attained by letter-writing ? It must be obvious to the most superficial it is not. The last twelve- month Lee hare been continually favoured with notwithstanding this effort—a misdirected one ...

... BRITISH MiD rOSeiGN. Some of the Paris papers mention a report that several French officers belonging, or who have belonged, to the army of Africa are to be attached to the Abyssinian ex- pedition. At Wandsworth police-court. in London, a gentle- man has been fined in the mitigated penalty of el 5s., under the new Dog Act, for keeping two spaniels without a licence. The Americans have punned ...

... curious particulars relative to the manufacture of railway locomotives in Germany. It appears that m 1864 the num- her of locomotiyes on the German raiJways was 4,.GS, 574 of which were manufactured abroad while Germany now not only bailds her own locomwitzenand, Itsly, Franc: and Russia. The number of engines now used on the of ...

... SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS. The teachers of Sunday-schools are meat frequently persons who take to that form of work from a desire of doing some good to their neighbours, and with a con- sciousness of having no peculiar aptitude for any ether kind of ministration (we are quoting from The Queen). But people do not consider that to teach and govern children, so that they shall really be benefited by ...

... LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. The usual monthly meeting of the Blaenafon Local Board was held in the Girls' schoolroom, on Tuesday last. Present: Rev John Jones (chairman), Messrs Thos. Hemming, Israel Morgan, John Harris, John Prit- chard, and William Burgoyne. The minutes of the last meeting were read and con- firmed. The Clerk reported that the balance now in the hands of the treasurer was £ 235 ...

... The third number of the Revue Contemporaine, a Paris paper, contains the thiid part of an elaborate memoir by Count E. de Keratry. entitled The fall of Maximilian. The following extract, from the part iust published, ill be read with painful interest The Empress of Mexico arrived in Paris and alighted at the Grand Hotel In proportion as her journey approached its end her excitement increased ...

... AitRitsYCitAN- CHORAL UNION. -A class of the above ntureha.s been formed here, which has created illite a stir among the lovers of music and under the able leadership of Mr David I homas, formerly of the cele- brated Aberdare choir, we cannot fail to succeed in having a cboir second to none in the neighbourhood. ...

... ~K\D~CASE OF DHOWXIXO -ixoi'Esr. An inquest was held on Saturday at the Three Cranes hotel (Mr Glazebrook's) 011 the body of a little boy, seven years of age, named Evan Yaughan, who met with his death by drowning while playing near the Newport canal 011 the preceding afternoon. The jury-, having viewed the body, the Coroner Batt, Esq.,) said that Edward Clare, the lfttle boy who was present ...

... IXCOME TAX.—We would remind our reade, that Saturday, the 7th inst., is the last day for sendi in income tax returns to the Waite. DitAIX\GE OF TRUVF,Tilix CIIUUCIIV Hf'' A committee-meeting Was held' at the Town-hall. Fridav evening: present, the Ilev J. C. Llewelh M essrs Wood and Golding (churchwardens). E. B. wards, Bastard and Greenway. The object of the ing was the receiving of tenders ...