... Equal in importance with a reduction in the price of tea, is its purity. The Chinese face or colour the tea intended for the English market with mineral powder, to hide the worthless brown leaves. Messrs Horniman, London, dis- allow this objectionable practice on their im- ports, and therefore guarantee reliable quality, strength, and cheapness. ...

... On Monday, at the Society of Arts, in London, the Archbishop of York presided at a conference on the general questions of the laws relating to the liquor traffic. The Chairman said that the object of the meeting was to attempt to form a rational and sober public opinion on the subjects under discussion, so that something might be done to limit the monstrous evils that flowed from the ...

... ON TOP OF TWYN-BATl-LWM, Monmouthshire folks who do not know Twyn-bar-lwm intimati-lv, have at least heard of him, and many of them know him by sight. Ho is talked about a great (hd; and a great deal more than I, after paying him a visit and well considering all his merits, thwik that he feally deserves. You generally fiad him men- tioned as if he was a mountain on his own ac- count, a fine, ...

... MONMOUTH CASTLE. Old walls, patched up by bungling hands, I know not if to si,h or Seeing the pomp and strength you owned Have changed to this beneath Time's test. Oh, how you swayed it o'er the huts That crouched hesifle your ample wing, And flung your greedy shadow down. Touching and claiming every thing, And sat aloft here like a king. Such was the Norman, your first lord In you he shaped ...

... (From the Manche8ter Examiner.) A Lady, 29, highly respectable, no fortune, wishes tomeet with an Elderly Gentleman.—G. A., Post-office, Swansea. A Widower, in a good position, wishes to marry a respect- able and well domesticated Lady with means; no objections to a widow.—Address C. B., Post-office, Huddersfleld. Wanted, a Wife, of business habits, by a Young Man, aged 32; life ...

... (Strikingly good and strick-ly correct.) A blessing on every brick (Including, of course, Mr Strich !) We were down on our luck, Thought the last stroke was struck. But we've stride at just the right nick. PONT-AP-HOWKL IlEDivivrs. ...

... There have been three persons arrested since Saturday morning on a charge of having taken an active part in the riot at Mold. The prisoners in custody are William Griffiths, formerly a collier, but now a medical herbalist in Mold; Benjamin Tat- ham, gentleman's servant, Mold; Isaac Jones, collier, Black Diamond, (husband of the woman who was shot through the back, and who died on Saturday ...

... In the Bail Court, in London, last week, the cause of the Queen v. Watkins, was decided, and was a very peculiar in- dictment for felony, arisiug out of an action against Mr. Tor- rens, M. P. for Finsbury, tried In January last, before Mr. Justice Byles, in the Common Pleas. The prisoner, who is a solicitor, surrendered te his bail, and pleaded not guilty. Mr. Pater, in stating the case to ...

... OPEXIXG A FREEMASON'S LODGE IN PONTYPOOL. The Provincial Grand Lodge of Monmonth- siiire met at Pout ypool on Thnrsday week. and the occasion was rendered additionally attractive and interesting by the fact that a new lodge, designated the Kennard Lodge, No. 1258, was I to be consecrated. The brethren congrega- ted in large numbers from every lodge in this and the adjoining- province, there ...

... On Sunday last, at all the London Roman Catholic churches within the archdiocese of Westminster, a pas- toral letter to the clergy and laity by Archbishop Manning was read. It dealt chiefly with the subject of education, and as a manifesto from the head of the Roman Catholic Church in this country is of much in- terest at the present time. In the course of his letter the archbishop says We are ...

... Late on Saturday night a terrible calamity occurred on Pentonville-hill, which resulted in the loss of three lives. The details are peculiarly distressing, as the following out- line will show The house in which the fire occurred is, externally, a private one; but a private millinery business was carried on by Miss J ago, who occupied the parlours and third floor; the first floor and kitchen ...

... In the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, an appeal was decided on the question whether the mem- bers of the University of Cambridge who had chambers in college were entitled to vote for representatives for the town. The appeal was founded upon the case of the scholars, and upon those of the fellows and the undergraduates. The case stated that each scholar occupied rooms in his college ...