... We have been requested to announce that the Rev. Thos. Thoresby, of Penybont, Radnor, has been appointed local treasurer of the National Association for Freedom of Worship (London and Manchester), whose object is gradu- ally to abolish pew rents in parish churches, and to re- store their ancient freedom to rich and poor alike. PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS.—In favour of the Permis- sive Bill, by Mr ...

... gtpintltoi A very serious plague of small brown beetles has occurred in Yorkshire, and the Swede turnip crop has been destroyed. This is especially so in the Wold district, many farms having no plants remaining. At Malton, on Saturday week, the farmers obtained new stocks of seed. The beetles in myriads have also attacked the tare and pea crops. The long drought is supposed to have favoured ...

... The appeal of the Rector of Ledbury against the recent decision is not likely to come on for twelve months, in con- sequence of the arrears of business before the Privy Council. Mgr. Kettelet, Bishop of Mayence, and hitherto a fervent partisan of the Holy See, has just pronounced against the infallibility of the Pope.—GaWinani. The Surrey Congregational Union, after full discussion, have come ...

... (From the Mark Lane Express.) With rain-clouds flying about in abundance at the com- mencement of the past week only a few goodshower, have partially fallen, and though these have refreshed the foliage and the grass they have gone very little way into the soil. A rain of about forty-eight hours is still wanted; and our neighbours the French it seems have had very Bimilav weather, and show ...

... SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before Dr D. R. Pughe, upon the body of J )hn Cartwright, aged ten weeks, the son of Henry Cartwright, a man living at Llanerfyl, nec.r Bala. From the evidence of Sydney Davies, the child's grandmother, it appeared that the deceased had from his birth been very sickly. On the previous Monday his mother, grandmother, and father started in a cart ...

... RENT AUDIT.—The half-yearly rent audit of W. W. E. Wynne, Esq., took place on Monday, June 6th, at Peniarth. Business being over, the tenants sat down to an excellent dinner provided for them by the worthy squire. The chair was occupied by the respected agent, Mr Evan Rowlands, supported on the right and left by Messrs R. Rowlands, Talybont, and R. Morris Jones, Glan Machlas, the vice chairman ...

... THE NEW LICENCES FOR HORSES, CARRIAGES, &c. To the Editor of the Oswesti-y Advertiser. SIR, The declarations now being issued to the public by the proper officers of Inland Revenue, under the New Act which came into force on the 1st instant, can only be received at my office properly jilled up and accompanied with the necessa; y cash for payment of the duties, on the receipt of which licences ...

... The foot and mouth disease has established itself to a con- siderable extent in the county of Carmarthen. The degree of LL.D. has been conferred by the Univer- sity of Philadelphia upon Mr Alfred Ik in, M.A., F. S. A., a native of Montgomery, and author of a treatise on The Science of Agriculture, with especial reference to intelli- gent farming. A pastoral letter from Dr Brown, Bishop of ...

... In the House of Lords, Lord De Grey laid upon the table a Bill to amend the laws relating to the medical profps-ion, the pro- visions of which he shortly explained, and added.thnthe believed they would give satisfaction to the profession. The Bill was read a first time, and the second reading fixed for May 2nd.-The High Court of Justice Bill and the Appetite Jurisdiction Bill passed through ...

... There was no sitting in the House of Lords. In the House of Commons, Mr Kennaway, introduced by Mr Kekewieh and Mr Scourfield, took his set for East Devon, in the room of Lord Courtenay, resigned. The House having been occupied for upwards of an hur in the consideration of the Metropolitan District Railway Bill, and there being also a con- siderable number of questions on the paper, it was a ...

... The Bishop of Hereford has conferred the vacant canonry or the Rev. Dr. Jebb. The Rev. J. P. Chown's congregation (Baptist) at Bradford have decided to signalize the jubilee of the Zion Baptist Chapel by erecting a new chapel and schools at a cost of about £ 12,000. Bishop fweaccor,ling to the Church Revieic is at present in London, and has recently been examined by three medical men of high ...

... The proceedings at the meeting of the Montgomeryshire Liberal Association, which we report to-day, were of an exceedingly satisfactory and encouraging nature. The Society, which has prospered beyond all expectation, and done good service, deserves the cordial support of the Liberal party. We are glad that an amalgamation of the boroughs with the county for the purposes of the Society was ...