... The directors of the National Provincial Bank oi England have ordered a bonus of 10 per cent to be presented to the officers and clerks of the company upon their salaries for the year 1867. It is rumoured that Her Majesty proposes to show her sense of the valuable assistance she hasreceived in her literary labours from Mr. Theodore Martin by con- ferring upon him the honour of knighthood. ...

... An inquest was held on Friday, at the Bank o.' England Tavern, Paddington, respecting the death of Frederick Packham, aged seventeen ycrs. The decpased had been employed as a porter at Mr. White- ley's linen draper, in West,bourne-grove, for about three months. He was a steady lad, and no com- plaints whatever had been made respecting him. He ha^penpd to like the housemaid, a girl named Anna ...

... MULTTJM IN PARVO. It is said that Lord THrby is about to make a two months' sojourn at Cannes. The Prince of Wales, attended by CapHin Ellis, visi ed Mr. Leighton's studio on Saturday afternoon. The Conservatory at Warsaw, says the Gazette Musicale, is to be closed, owing to the want of funds. The Pos^-office authorities have resolved at once to resume the ocean sortingof the West India mails ...

... THE ABYSSNIAN EXPEDITION. THE RETURN OF THE ARMY. 8ir Stafford Northcote has received from Sir R. Napier the following telegram, dated Ashangi, 5th Arrived with rear brigade. May 5th, at Lake Ash- ftngi, 130 miles north of Magdala. 5th and 8th Na- tive Infantry have returned to Bombay. Troops and ttores are being shipped away from Zoula fast. Cap- tain Roberta and others wounded, doing well; ...

... A large number of the respectable inhabitants of Merthyr and Dowlais proceeded to Dowlais on Thurs- day, the 5th inst., in order to present addresses of con- gratulation to G. T. Clark, Esq., on his appointment as Sheriff of Glamorgan. The address from Mer- thyr, which was handsomely illuminated on vellum, was as follows: To George Thomas Clark, Esq., High Sheriff of the County of Glamorgan. ...

... A correspondent writes:—It seems hard that you should so otten have to make this inquiry, and I think the present instance will show what need there is for Some reform in our police regulations. A shopman returning from Battersea with two parcels a few minutes before ten at night was turning the corner of Westmoreland-street, Pimlieo, near the Grosvenor- road station, when he was assailed from ...

... THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEGISLATION. [By a Member of the CARDIFF CHAMBER of COMMERCE.] No. 7. We have defined the origin, province, and end of legislation. By an oversight of the printer, the latter is said to be the liberty of the law. It should have been the liberty of the subject and the majesty of the law. Obviously the right balancing of these two forces —liberty and authority—is the eud of all ...

... GENERAL NEWS. Madame Parepa Rosa, apparently, is winning golden opinions in more forms than one during ber American tour. Some of the oritioisms of her performances are trulv droll; as, for instance, one from the New York Daily Tribune, where the writer, sneaking of her ap pearance as Zerlinain Fra Diavolo, says, it might be supposed she would be rather a full pattern. For the Chaucer ...

... In May will appear the Of anew ...

... In a recent interesting lecture to the Social Science Associa- tion Dr. Letheby. analyst to the ca-p-ration of the City of London mentioned that water is put into milk, lard or dripping into butter, chicory into coffee, and black tea is 'faced with black lead;' the green is also'ajot up' with mineral0, powdered gypsum, and Prussian blue. Hence the public have a great desire to purchase ...

... CRAFTY and shameless rumours continue to be industriously circulated regarding the honourable and learned candidate, Mr. Giffard. Amongst the latest Radical inventions are the following —1. That Mr. Giffard has retired. 2 That he has become a Roman Catholic. 3. That he says workmen ought not to earn more than 10s. or 12s. a week. All these allegations are false, and we are authorised to say ...

... THE ATLANTIC CABLES.—A letter addressed by Sir Richard Glass, chairman of the Analo-American Telegraph Company, to the secretary of the Stock Exchange, informs us that the cable of 1866 has been found to have failed at Valentia. Sir R. Glass promises a full report after the cable has been tested to discover where the accident occurred. For the pre- sent the whole of the work devolves upon the ...