... 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 ...

... ABERTILLERY. TILLERY STEAM COLLIERIES. Incidents occur occa- sionallywhich affect an individual or a community, either for good or evil. Happily for this place, the former in- fluence predominates, and the recommencement of opera- tions at these pits augurs well for its future prosperity. Some weeks ago alterations on a large scale were com- menced and completed at a great expense, ...

... Mr. Scudamore's official letter, addressed to the Post- master-General, with reference to a resolution of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, complaining of ft delay in the transmission of telegrams, has been printed in the form of a parliamentary paper. Mr. Scudamoro- writes: On the 7th December. I purposely delayed for several hours the delivery of a telegram, addressed to the Bditor o £ the ...

... DRUNK AND DISORDERLIES.—At the police court on Monday before Messrs. E. David, and G. F. Williams, Agnes Wilton, a girl of loose character, charged with being drunk and riotous in Halket-street, Canton, on Priday the .15th instant. P.O. Griffiths proved the charge, and the prisoner was fined ;); or three days' imprison- ment.—Cornelius O'Brien, Jane Murphy, and Mary Regan were ctlrged with ...

... The election of a member of Parliament for East Gloucestershire in the place of Mr. Stayner Holford (resigned) took place on Monday'morning in the Shire Hall, Gloucestershire. The only candidate was Mr. J. Reginald Yorke, Conservative. About 500 electors were present in the body of the hall. After having been nominated by Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, Mr. Yorke was girt with the sword, profuse in ...

... THE TICHBORNE CASE. Nothing has yet been heard of an application for bail the Tichlioriie case. THREATENED STRIKE AT OXFORD. Unless the nine hours limit be conceded, the building Operatives of Oxford threaten to strike. A CORPORATION ACCOUNTANT DISMISSED. Mr. Harris, accountant of the Bradford Corporation, bas been dismissed, and his accounts placed in the bands of an accountant. STATE OF LADY ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening Mr. Geoi. Thorns, formerly of No. 32, Chariotte-street, Cardiff, clerk in the Glamorgan Coal Company's offices at Llwyny- pia, was taking the numbers, &c., of the coal trams, the train unepexctedly started, asd he was pressed between the buffers. He walked a few yards, and then fell against the man who was leading him. He was carried to his lodgings about a ...

... CONCERT. -A vocal and instrumental concert took place on Monday evening, at the Methodist Hall, in aid of the Gelynog Infant School. The large hall was tastefully decorated, and was crowded to excess. Mr. and Mrs. Frost, of Cardiff, took the instrumental part. The .principal vocalists were—Miss Griffiths Mr. T. Williams, Pontypridd (Eos Cynon), Miss M. A. Davies, Mr. William Davies, and Mr. T. ...

... Strenuous exertions have been made in the last few days in the parish of Lampeter to get signatures to a pe- tition against Mr. Osborne Morgan's Burials Bill. It is to be hoped that the Dissenters in the parish and neigh- bourhood are equally energetic. ...

... On the 15th of February the Vice-Chancellor granted an injunction in this case to restrain the Great Western Railway Company from stopping their down morning express train and their up evening express less than ten minutes at the Swindon station, but suspended the operation of the injunction till the 1st of April, in order to give the railway company time to make the neces- sary alterations in ...