... RHYMNEY VALLEY. SNIDER Guxs.-The fourth battery of the 1st Mon- mouthshire Artillery Volunteers, at Blackwood, have been supplied with the Snider breach-loader in lieu of the carbine. Hoth guns and swords came together. There is also a change to take place in the big guus they are to have seige guns instead of the present field guns. TEA PAITTY -At Penuel Welsh Independent Chapel, at Nelson, a ...

... The Select Committee on East Indian Fi met on Tuesday for the last time to consider Its In consequence of the incomplete nature of tl: e the evidence only will be reported, with a suggestion the committee should be reappointed next session. The Civil Service Commissioners give that at an examination for two county surveyorsbip Ireland, just held, the undermentioned candidates tained the places ...

... Saral MR. BARON CHANVELL, on Wednesday night, enter- tamed thetmembers of the South Wales bar at duiiiM., at his apartments in Charles-street. CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH, WOOD, STKEET.-—A. tea and public meeting was held in the above churcn on Wednesday In connection with a movement for theimproveinent of the interior of the building. About £300 lsrequiren to accomplish the object, and 160 persons ...

... SHOCKING CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT GLOUCESTER. The Gloucester magistrates were engaged for two or three hours in the Infirmary, on Wednesday afternoon, hearing the evidence in a shoeing case of attempted murder, wherein the would-be murderer bad sought also to commit suicide. A girl named Annie Grey, alias Pullen, 17 years old, born in Wotton-under-Edge, has lived in Dean Forest, ...

... TREDEGAR. DEATHS BY DROWKIMG.—An accident occurred to Mr Brown a travelling draper, on Tuesday, while bathing iA a pond between Lbbw Vale and Tredegar, by which he. unfortunately lost his life. It appew thit Seleased was seized with cramp and sunk never to raise again. Im- mediately afterwards another man, named Daniel Carev plmjged into the same pond, and met with a similar fate* His body was ...

... RI N NARBERTH. ROURTUWAS HEWTRT'^?T-¥ USUAL MONTHLY sitting of this JUD-E.-PHILLSR S £ DAYLAST, before Mr. T. if. Terrell, Company This 1 T- ^HITLAND AN(^ Yale Railway value of a SHEEIFTN? J0N WAS brought to recover £ 2, the Honour SAVE ON THE defendants' railway. 'His Dares aid FLIT FOR Pontiff, with costs.-Thomas Ss wife Th?a^S J°hn' Stevens and Frahce^! ^SAIDT LMT 5LAINTLFFS claimed £ 5 ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The weekly meeting of the Board was held on Satur- day. Mr. K W. Oavid presided, and there were present Messrs W. Ale«u,!e and J Pride (vice-chairmen), P. Bird, J Cory. hi. J. Paine, ALD., C. French, 1. V. Yorath, Rev. C. Lewis, &c. The Master's r,ort snowed that there had been o2 admissions to the House during the week, 43 discharge*, one birth, and two deaths, the ...

... Monday was the annual brewsters' sessions at Llan- daff, and the magistrates present were Messrs. E. W. David, C. H. Page, and E. S. Hill. The court was crowded throughout the day, and additional interest was imparted to the proceedings, inasmuch as this was the first occasion upon which the magistrates have exercised their licensing functions under the new Act. The justices renewed the ...

... The number of men who have joined the strike for higher wages and more facilities for education in Warwick- ahire is increasing daily. A correspondent in the south of that county has sent to the papers a report of a speech maie by the leader of the discontents. The man's nama is Arch, and he declares he has hitherto been in the receipt of 12s. a week. This is what he said in excuse for his ...

... LOCAL TOPICS. ANOTHEK SLIP 'TWIXT CUP AND LIP. W). have so often heard that the best laid schemes of mice aud men gang aft aglejy' that we are tired of the hackneyed quotation, and yet BUHNS' lines are almost the only popular extract which every day becomes more and more true. That and the kindred saying- so hoary in its polyglottal age that it may have been first uttered by the baffled ...

... Salisbury Plain is spoken of as the probable scene of the .next Autumn Manceavres. At a meeting on Satur- day it was announoed by Colonel Lloyd-Lindsay that Mr. Cardwell bad not succeeded in procuring suitable ground in the North of England. Notice has been given that the example of the Mid- land Company with respect to attaching third-class car- riages to all their trains will be followed by ...

... RHYMNEY. BIBLE SOCIETY.—The Committee of the Bible Society at this place have been so successful during the past year in obtaining subscriptions, that they were able to vote at their last meeting the sum of JB30 free contribution for the use of the Parent Society, which is J610 more than last year. INFIRMARY.—We are glad to inform the public that an infirmary has been built in iihymney. It was ...