... The United Friends Lodge, meeting at the Pentwyn Tavern, heartily enjoyed their anniversary on Monday. They engaged the band of the Hanbury rifle corp*, got up a very good procession, and sat down to as excellent a dinner as any man could wish. BURGLARY.—On Saturday night Glansvchan House was broken into. The burglar or burglars were evi- dently strangers to the place, who, judging by the sire ...

... Rumour has it (says the Pall Mall Gazette,) that Blue Gown, winner of the Derby in 1868, is to be sold for 26,000 according to some accounts and;05,000 ac- cording to others. Say P,5,000, and calculate what he will have been worth, exclusive of bets, keep, and travelling expenses, to his owner. At two years of age he won (having been disqualified for the Champagne Stakes, for which he came in ...

... lllftopotttan Gossip. BT OUR OWN CORRSSPONDENT. TThe remivks under this head are be regarded as the ex- SSessiOE (E independent opinion, from the pen of a gentleman J: wbom we bave the greatest confidence, but for which we vsvertheieas do not hold ourselves responsible. It is currently stated, and I have seen no denial of it, that her Majesty will open Parliament in person, and not only that ...

... MISS ERIN DELINEATED. The artist of the Weekly Ncws has an illustration in last week's issue in which Miss Erin is represented -,i, a young lady seated at one side of a table, looking charmingly disconsolate. At the other side stand Mr. Gladstone with a shamrock in his button-hole, smiling upon her, and desirous of pleasing her, but rather concerned to find that she does not. look con- ...

... The Times has a leader upon the above confession, in which the following remarks occur:— All doubts respecting the justice of his sentence must now be dlfmlsed. HI circumstantial confession agrees com- pletely with all his former and 1? oonrf-t—t even to minute particulars with the ascertained facts. He once asked a metropolitan constable, for example, whether in his first confession he ...

... BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. (The remarks under this head are to be regarded as the ex- Dre-sion of independent opinion, from the pen of a gentleman mora we have ths greatest confidence, but for which we 1..vortheiesa do not hold ourselves responsible.] There is no such thing in August as politics, said Mr. Disraeli the other day, addressing a party of excursionists at Alton Towers, and most ...

... The recent recurrence of this saint's day (March 1st) has led to inquiries about his saintship. cannot answer them better than by giving the fol- loming from, Chambers' Book of Days St. David, popularly teimed the titular saint of Wales, is said to have been the son of a prince of Cardiganshire of the ancient regal line of Cunedda Wleuig some, also, state that lie was the son of Xanthus, son ...

... MYSTERIOUS PRESENTIMENT. The following is given publicity to by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hagley Ibll Admiral Sir Thomas Williams, a straightforward and excellent man, founder of the Royal Naval Female School for the education of naval officers' daughters, was in command of a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. His course brought him within sight of the Island of Ascension, at that time ...

... In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. James moved for a rule on behalf of Sir John Henniker, calling upon justices of Hampshire to show cause why a mandamus should not issue compelling them to re- ceive a certain information, and issue a certain sum- mons. It appeared that a complaint had been lodged at the instance of Sir J. Henniker against two persons for trespassing upon his land ...

... THE QUEEN'S LEVEE. The first levee of the season was held by her Ma- jesty in person, on Friday in last week, at Bucking- ham Palace. Her Majesty was accompanied to the throne-room by Prince Arthur, the Duke of Cam- bridge, and other members of the royal family, and was attended by members of the royal household. Since the last levee, in the summer of last year, a new Parliament has been ...

... The ACTION AGAINST Mr. SIMS REEVES AT CHELTENHAM. In the Cheltenham County Court on Friday, Mr. Benson, of Bristol, applied for a new trial in the case of Hodson v. Harrison, in which a verdict of f23 had been given at the last sitting of the Court, and in which the question at issue was the ability of Mr. Sims Reeves to appear at a concert given by the de- fendant in Cheltenham, on Dec. 17 ...

... The Paris public are taking great interest in a most virulent polemic which is raging between M. Anatole de la Forge and M. Emile de Girardin, whose paper, the Liberte, published, the other evening, the following epistle :— Sir,—Before replying in the Sitcle to your insults, 1 wish to know whether you still intend sheltering yourself behind the pretext of Carrel's death, so as never to give ...