... INTERESTING PRESENTATION.—On Saturday afternoon, the members of the 1st Bible class of the English Baptist Sunday School, presented their teacher, Mr. Alfred Curtis, with a very handsome family Bible, together with an address, beautifully engrossed, in token of their affec- tion and esteem, and as a mark of their high appreciation of his faithful services for many years past, as their ...

... This Bill, consisting of seventy-eight clauses, was issued on Thursday. While following the main lines of the English Act in many respects, it differs from that Act in several most important particulars. For example, the election of School Boards is made general and obligatory in and for each and every parish and burgh. The electors are to be owners or occupiers of £4 annual value and the ...

... BURGLARY. At the Town-hall, on Monday last, before Messrs. J. Davids (Mayor) and J. Chivers, John Benja- min, an employe at the Kidwelly Tinworks, was brought up charged with feloniously entering the Bull Inn, on the morning of the 17th irist, and stealing therefrom seven spoons, one watch, one bottle containing whiskey, and another with brandy, and some beefsteak (which could not be ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S AND PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. MURDER OF DOMINICANS.—SENTENCE OF DEATH. VERSAILLES, Saturday.—The military tribunal has sentenced Scrizer Boih, alias Bobechi, Lacipia, Pascal and Boredville, to death, for murder of Dominicans. Four are sentenced to deportation to a fortress, three to ordinary deportation, and one to two years' imprison- ment. The ...

... LL ANTRISS AN T. SMALL-POX.—We are happy to state that there is not at present one single case in the town. LECTURE. —A lecture was delivered at the Welsh Baptist Chapel, on Monday evening, by the Rev. J. Jenkins, on the Fair Sex. The rev. gentleman appeared to amuse and evoke great laughter from the large audience that had come to hear him. THANKSGIVING DAY.—Special Thanksgiving services ...

... In a case of breach of promise tried at the Bail Court-, the plaintiff, a domestic servant, obtained £250 from a brewer at Paulton. Viscount Bury has declined the office of Vice- Chamoerlain to the Queen, vacant by the elevation of Lord Castlerosse to the peerage. The Earl of Moray has died suddenly of apoplexy in Elginsnire. He will be succeeded in the earldom by his youngest brother, the Hon ...

... j ■' ■ DItfAS. ]S 1: A FQOLISH FKEAS.—NARROW.JJSO^PE.—Four ,^ANILE-, men of this place, who came up in a' trap from pridd, had a narrow escape on Saturday. They met the Dinas dentist opposite.the^iijas hou&e coal level. Tliey were,all precty hilarious^ and one suggested that, the iftare suffered from top.th-a>die, and asked tjie dentist to extract her tooth. That gentleman being anxious to ...

... THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) AN AGGRAVATED CASE.—He^-d keeper (to Under ditto) VV hat d,yer want to be walking 011 the line for ? \Yhy, that there train might 'a smashed yer to bits! And master s gun in yer hand, too! PROYERBI \L PHILOSOPHY. —A curious canine coincidence may, possibly, escape the reader's notice. Atthe recent dog- show held in Dublin there were exactly 365 dogs ex- hibited, ...

... The Boyal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending the fitting out, and loss of the Megæra met for the 22nd time, on Saturday, at No. 11 Committee Room of the House of Commons, Lord Lawrence in the chair.. The Right Hon. H. E. Chihlers, M.P., examined by Lord Lawrence, said I was First Lord of the Admiralty from the 22nd of December, 1868, to the 12th of March, 1S71, ...

... STATE RAILWAYS. We have to consider, says the Times, whether the whole British public would be better served than it now is by extending to railways, what we must call the successful experiment with the telegraphs. The formation of a new line or the choice between two routes may make all the difference between progress or decay in a country town, or in half a county, while villages already ...

... (Before Aldermen ALEXANDER and PRIDE and Mr. GEO. BIRD. ) THE CHARGE AGAINST A CHEMIST'S ASSISTANT.—John Howells, chemist's assistant, charged with administering a noxious drug to Ursula Matilda Greenman, with intent to procure a miscarriage, again surrendered to his bail. Mr. Morgan, who appeared for the prosecutor, stated to the Bench his intention of withdrawing the prosecution; after ...

... ABERDARE. THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY COMPANY AND THE POWELL DUFFRYN STEAM COAL COMPANY, LIMITED.—At the Police-court on Tuesday, before Messrs, J. C. Fowler, R. H. Rhys, and D. E. Williams, the case of the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company against the Taff Vale Railway Company was gone into on its merits, and occu- pied the Bench nearly all the day. The Company seek to construct a bridge over the ...