... COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF GLAMORGANSHIRE.—1st A.V.C.—A. P. Wilks, Gent., to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon, vico Griffith, promoted. 3rd A.V.C.—R. Boyle, Esq., to be Captain. 16th R.V.C. —J. W. A. Stevens, Gent., to be Ensign. MERTHYII AND BRECON RAILWAY.—Intelligence, which we have every reason to^dcein authentic, was received at Merthyr on Friday to the effect that the ...

... THE COAL AND IRON TRADES.—The staple trades in and around this district are, we regret to say, in a very depressed condition. The men are loosing a great deal of time at the iron works, and there appears every chance of short time being the rule during the winter. At Blaenavon the company are erecting new blast fur- naces, but in the forge there has been little doing for the past fortnight; ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF GOVERNMENT PRIZES AT THE CARDIFF TOWN HALL. On Tuesday evening, at the Cardiff Town-hall, a distri- bution to the successful competitors for several prizes, given by the science and art department of the Govern- ment, took place. There was a tolerably good at- tendance, and the Mayor presided. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, expressed the pleasure with which be ...

... GEN.ER'AL SUMMALY. Muirtniri IY A PA^ ?? eighrt o'cloklz on Saturday night, thelinratee of the Stockport union work- house were alarmed by the report that a murder had been committed in the lunatio ward bv a violent young man, named William Ijurns, aged 30; and that the victim wfS an imbecile pauper, named Isaac Twigg, nearly 80 years of age, who was in bed at the time. Twigg s wife died in ...

... I AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION OF 1867. ANALYSES OF STATUTES PASSED IN T'HE LA1ST SESSION AP'P'LYING TO AGctIoUILTURAL fISTRICTS. ?? Oar Zegal ?? No. 2. THE NEW CATTLE DISEASES ACT. This is chapter 125, and is entitled An Act to con- tinue and amend the Acts relating to contagious or in- fections diseases among cattle and other animals. It repeals sections 11 and 17 of the Cattle Disceses Pro- ...

... I I THE, PAPA&L STATES. ROME, OCT. !. The official Giorsnale di RIonza of to-day says:- The 'Garibaldians who fought at Ischia and Valentana have rei eived reinforceneettsi and intend to fortify themselve, lat'Farnese. A, column. of Pontifical troops has bcei sent ts engage them. Other columns have been do. spatched towards Caprarola, Soriano, and Bomarzo, swhere there are Garibaldian bands. ...

... FLORENCE, OCT. :3. The intelligence received here concerning the insur. rectionary movement in the Papal province of Viterbo is of a very contradictory character. Up to-the present, however, no serious conflict has occurred betweezi the Papal troops and the insurgents. The latter continue to occupy certain localities. At Rome many arrests have been made, and the authorities have taken various ...

... VISITATION O1?' Tf{E CLEE?G'Y OF TITE 1MOCJ?SE OF ARMAGH. EFRCMA OU-tIC ONS REr'O11TER]1 Ann xe-u, Ttrrsj}_t To TIAY. at eleveno'clocl; tbe tman-aaivisetarione o th Cleirgy O£ rhe ArchdJ? oees' Ot Aruxagh w-as lieli. in the Catbeciralo f tinis toxent 1y tiM CJlae-rh ?? Pinnt~ate. a-sistodet by Thlomras Ball, ALsq., ?? LL.Dh, hts Vicarfiecneral. Th'e-attend~ance of clergyn as exceed-. ingly ...

... THE EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON CITY IMMRHANTS, AT the Mansion House, Londoni, Oil Wednesday Julius Hugo Liviostein, merchant, of Soauthgate Road, Dalton, was brought up on remand before the Lord. Mayor on a charge of conspiring withi Hermaun n eckienbrr erl others, not in custodly, and obtaining, by means of false ti tn-naas. between 25th Junoe anid f0fh September, a ?? -f daeaslis and linieiln, ...

... I In the week that ended on Saturday, October 12th, 4,035 births and 2,849 deaths were registered in London and in twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 24 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, 23 in Edinburgh, and 28 in Dublin, 19 in Bristol, 28 in Bihniegham. 31 in Liverpool, 34 in Manchester, ...

... T'H'.E -EIV ASPECT OF FESIANJS'vI. I - -- (rom the Pall Mall Gamet~e.) The aeay in Holborn the other night, when (according to the present aspect of the case) a nan wmas shot for declaiming against Fenian- im has sensibly increased the alarm created bythelDanchesteroutrae. Farls. i-portant| in itself, it seems to indicate, wvith other cir- cumstalnces which constantly arise to perplex the ...

... STRANGE ADVENTURE- OF A SOLDIER. - In the early pitt of last'monlth, a soldier, named: Jonathan Howard, belongingto the MilitarTrain,. statiohed 'at Woolwicb, conceived the extraordinary idea -of starting for a run -on the' vroad it* Dick Turpin, and, as will be seen, he carried out-his well- considered ?? with wonderful cleysress -form.a month. Being a servant to Lieutenant Crawford, of the ...