... LONDON, THURSDAY. London has behaved well over this thanksgiving- has done well, one should say, i-o respect of making the very most of its grand old picturesque self-almost as well as if the aid of Messrs. Beverley, Telbin, and John O'Connor had been sought to decorate the streets. Fleet-street looked bright; the Strand was positively splendid, and the triumphal arch between Fleet-street and ...

... AN AMERICAN VIEW OF LORD MAYO. The assassination of Lord Mayo has excited great in- terest and regret in America. The }sew York papers are generally disposed to regard it as ominous towards the future of English rule. The Xac York Times takes a high view of his character. It sa.ys A great outcry was raised at Lonl Mayo's appointment. It was made on the eve of Mr. Disraeli's Cabinct going out ...

... Eppa's CHOCOLATE.—La Situation, in an article entitled France et Angleterre, says:— Nous n'vons en France qu'une seule usine oil la preparation du Cacao emploie un materiel et un personnel aussi considerables que ceux que nous avons vus dans l'usine de Messieurs Epps. C'est une veritable curiositfe dans son genre que cette immenso fabrique. The wrapper of each cake of Chocolate pre- pared ...

... TREDEGAR INTELLIGENCE. ELJVNOX OF GuAMIAM.—There will be considerable alterations in the election, the parish being now divided into wards, as follows :-Tredegar and Sirhowy, six guardians; Ebbw Vale, three; Rhymney, three; and Lower Hamlet, two. ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH. The Rev. E. Jones came into residence at Tredegar parsonage last week, and on Sunday morning, after reading the Thirty-nine ...

... COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The mills at Pentrebach are stopped, in consequence of a strike of the level colliers, who seek a larger advance than the one recently granted. AN ENTERPRISING IRONMASTER. —Con ttid arable excitement was manifested at intervals on Monday in the neighbour- hood of Church-street, when a huge locomotive, with trucks attached, passed through the street on the old tram-road to ...

... SHOCKING INCREASE OF DRUNKENNESS.—At the police- court on Tuesday (before Messrs J. C. Fowler and D. E. Williams), no less than 20 porsons were brought up for drunkenness, and were mulcted in the usual penalty. PERMITTING DRUNKENNESS.—Catherine Watkins was summoned for permitting drunkenness in the Ivy Bush, Cwmaman. P.C. Whitney proved the offence. Mr Phillips defended. Two convictions were ...

... EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE ELECTION. 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. Sotlieron Estcourt, Mr. Yorke was ...

... H&Mnilftry, but at all events a very effectual irranner. Slyly' they dropped the butt-ends of their rifles on the- crowd's toes, and as the rifles were the harder, tho crowd yielded to their gentle admonition, thoso in rear chaffing the unfortunates who suffered at the hands of the 2Jrd. When at length the streets were -cls&red, and a fair view could from the ccntre of tho roadway be obtained ...

... THE SMALL-POX. NOTWITHSTANDING the vigilance of our modical officer and the efforts of our sanitary authorities, the virulent disease familiarly known as small- pox has been unusually severe in our neigh- bourhood. Fortunately it has not as yet been very fatal, but in some instances the swift winged messenger has followed in its trail. In one instance death has taken a victim somewhat suddenly ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY. Neither the debates on the Army Estimates nor the encounter over the Education Bill have in the least diverted attention from the American question, and, as a curious exemplification of the condition of the public mind, I cannot refrain from making two little extracts which it is worth remembering are cut from the same newspaper, the Evening Standard of Monday. Alluding to ...

... TREDEGAR POLICE COURT. TUESDAY.—(Before Mr Darby and Dr Coates.) AVOIDING A DISTRESS FOR RENT.—John Nicholds Crumlin, wa3 charged by Charles Ricketts, in whosw house defendant lived as a tenant for some months at Crumlin, with avoiding a distress warrant. Ricketts put in a dis- tress, as the rent was falling in arrears, and the bailiff levied, but allowed the cargo to slip, so that the ...

... Notice is given in the Gazette that her Majesty's birthday will be kept on Wednesday, the 15th of May next. ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The works on the St. Vincent Line and Brainerd Branch are being pushed on with vigour, and a splendid bridge is being built on the Mississippi River. The grading of nearly 50 miles west of St. Cloud is finished, also nearly all tho Brainerd Branch. Sin ...