... The Jewish Chronicle urges the concurrence of the Jews in the revision of the Bible. The Rev. John Partis Haswell, who had been in the Wes- leyan ministry for fifty-eight years, died suddenly last week, at Newcastle, in the 80th year of his age. Two West Indian clergymen have arrived at Plymouth, by the mail steamer Neva; the object of their visit to England being to appeal to the public for ...

... A discussion on Vagrants took place in the House of Commons last Friday, and in the course of the debate Sir M. BEACH, who made the most practical speech of the evening, said— In the Richmond and Oswestry Unions separate wards had been built for sleeping and for labour for the vagrants. This was good for those traveling in search of work; and with regard to the idle and the professional ...

... VAGRANCY.-—COMMITTAL OF TBREB TRAMPS.—At the Office of the Magistrates' Clerk for the Tre'rddol district, on Wednesday, before Thomas Jones, Esq., Wm. King, Charles and Henry Jones, three disreputable- looking tramps, were brought up in: the custody of P.C. Evan Evans, of Bow-street, charged! with begging at that place early that morning.—Sentenced to one month's im- prisonment each at ...

... THE FRENCH PLEBISCITE. DISTURBANCES IN PARIS. The calculation has been made in official quarters that the final result of the French Plebiscite will be about 6,500,000 ayes and 1,500,000 noes, with abstentions amounting to one-fifth of the registered voters. In 1852, when Louis Napoleon was elected Emperor of the French, the figures were 7,824,189 ayes, 253,145 noes, and 1.692,916 abstentions, ...

... A having bitten a little boy, and the latter having ex- hibite-I symptoms of hydrophobia, the owner of the animal was summoned t, ...

... Miss Ethel: Mamma, dear, I think I shall be a Dutchess.Mamira What nonsence, Ethel What do you mean?—Ethel: Why how would it be if I married a Dutch?-Punch. A TALE OP A TRUMPET.-At one of the entertainments recently given to the Duke of Edinburgh in India an old lady was present, who, being afflicted with deafness, car- ried an ear trumpet. She had occasion to summon one of the table ...

... The House of Lords sat for only a very short time, and tran- sacted no business of public interest. In the House of Commons, Mr Monsell stated the terms of the arrangement which has been come to between the delegates from the Red River Settlement and the Government of the Dominion of Canada. The Red River Settle- ment, it appeared, is to be constituted a province, with a local legislature, and ...

... THE AFRAIRS OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS.- At the i^°Ti on the 12th, the administration suit, Bubb v. Sir H. Yelverton, was heard. Among other claims on the Mar- quis's estate are the sporting debts originally amounting to £ o0,000, but suiee considerably reduced these remain to be de- cided by the Master of the Rolls. On the question of the claims I2.r f tl iaSa¥lst the Iate Marquis being ...

... PENNY LECTURE.:—We have been requested to publisb the following extract from Franklin's works, as the pieee which is to be translated into Welsh for the Penny Lee- ture, under the following conditions of competition :-A> the best of the competitors, under twenty years of age, a valuable edition of Dr. Franklin's works to the best the competitors, under fourteen years of age, a less valu- able ...

... PORTMADOC. ARRIVED. Lion, Evans; Charlotte Ann, Davief Larks, Jones John William, Jones; El za Bayno Eixen; Jane Hughes, Williams; Conup Pride, JoneS Charlotte, Humphreys; Maria, Roberts; Iiawks, Jon&' Mary Ann, Price; Fire Bricks, Jones; Lizzie J^e> Hughes Druid, Williams Endeavour, Williams trice, Davies; Martha Gertrude, J ones Eliza BrstJeJ' Williams; Lady of the Forest; Agenoria, Owen, ...

... THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT WEM. STATEMENT OF PR WILSON.—COMMITTAL i OF THE A€CUSEi>.V JT1» fartker ^mim.UoTT Wilson, charged with shooting at his fabhefr, t>r Wem, with a revolver, with the intent to murder hnn, took place in the Magistrates* Court »*. ?lS i' tk« magistrates present were Colonel Frederick Hill, A. G. a*ber Percy, Esq., and.Captain. the Mr De Courcy Peele again appeal to candmSt ...

... THE PROJECTED TKEFEGLVGTS VALLEY RAILWAY.—We understand that Messrs Howell and Morgan, Machyn- lleth have been appointed the solicitors for the railway which is projected between the Van mine and Caersws. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.—In the division on Mr Torrens's motion for a select committee to enquire into our relations with the colonies, with the minority in favour of the motion voted Mr ...