... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. PRESSURE OF THE RATES.—A table, intended to exhibit the great decree with which the rates press upof. farmers a-, compared with other clashes of per- sons in agricultural districts, is given in the current number of the Chamber of Aflriculture Journal. Re- turns were obtained from sixteen persons, thirteen of whom wi re farmers, one a purgeon, one a general dealer, ...

... THE DREADFUL CASE OF A MAN BEING KILLED BY PASSING THROUGH THE MACHINERY. We recorded last week the fact that a man was killed in the Blaer afon Forge in the shock- iJlg IlIallllcr above indicated. His name was Benjamin Ross, a roller, aged 47, and the par- ticulars of the unfortunate occurrence will ap- pear from the evidence given below. The inquest was Held on Thursday, at the Rising Sun ...

... At Worcester, the Rev. 3. J. Merest, rector of Upton Snodsbury, near Worcester, has been indicted for sending on the 6th October ult., a certain letter, demanding money of the Rev. R. M. Workman, of 10, Southampton-street, Strand London, with menaces, and without any reasonable or pro- bable cause. On the prisoner being arraigned, he pleaded not guilty to the charge of felony, and guilty to a ...

... FnEE PRESS OFFICE, Thursday. This evening a man employed in making the line between Biaenafon and Brynmawr, got by some means under the trucks, and it is stated that his head aud oue arm were separated from his body. ...

... THE REFORM LEAGUE. LONDOM, Wednesday Night.-At a meeting of the Heform League held this evening, Edmond Beales resigned his office as president of the association, on the ground that the ne- cessity for the maintenance of the League no longer existed. M r George Howell, the secre- tary, also gave in his resignation. nt ...

... PROHIBITION OF MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. A Dorsetshire clergyman (who, for obvious reasons, witholds his name) writes the following to the papers :— 1 am glad to find that the subject of a man marrying his deceased wife's sister is once more brought before Parlia- ment, with the view of rendering such an union legal in our staiute hook, as I verily believe it is simctionefl-most ...

... MEXICO. Mexico is again in the throes of a revolution, I and the Government of Juarez is seriously j threatened. On the 17th nit. the revolutionists | were within thirty leagues of the capital. The whole population of Merida had revolted, and the troops in iii(itij)le(l. Puebla had al- j ready pronounced against Juarez, together with! the troops. Insurrection was rife in Tlaseala and the ...

... HYDROPHOBIA AT PRESTON. Two, ^ths having recently occurred in Preston from hydrophobia, the police of that town are now carrying on a vigorous raid against dogs. On Saturday last six of these animals were poisoned with prussic acid in the yard of the police-station. One of them bit a young woman named Tyson, twenty years of age, six weeks before Christmas, and recently, since reading the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...