... THE ERIE RAILWAY. The Railway Nttcs, speaking of the Erie Railway says The wonderful elasticity of American railroad revenue has never yet been fully appreciated in this country. The capital of the company, as officially rendered, is as fol- lows :— Dols. Funded debt 26,458,300 Preferred stock 8,536,900 Ordinary 78,000,000 112,995,200 This is apparently the whole amount of present stock and ...

... j fHE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. The correspondent of the Morning Post telegraphs from Rome on April 8th, as follows :—The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Royal Family of Denmark, left Rome by a special train this morning at half-past ten for Florence. Prince Humbert, the authorities of the city, and the mem- bers of the British Legation were assembled at the railway station on the ...

... ARCHDEACON DENISON ON CHURCH AFFAIRS. In his arcihdiaeonal charge at Taunton, on Monday. Archdeacon Denison insisted that the old relations of Church and State were passing away, and predicted the disestablishment and disendowment of the English Church, although doubting whether it would occur in his time. Worse than that, however, he considered was the establish- ment and endowment of no ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SNOWSTORMS. The weather during a considerable part of March was very severe in Northern America. Mariners arriving at the ports state that for 20 days the weather on the coast had been unprecedentedly stormy. The effects of the storm on land may be gathered from the following:— Toronto, March 20 Reports from different parts of the New Dominion indicate last night one of the ...

... The usual weekly meeting of the Board was held on Saturday. Present—Mr G. T. Clark, chairman Dr Price. Dr James, Messrs R. H. Rhys, T. Jenkins, R. Davics, James Lewis. D Davies, J. Williams, A. Jones, R. Lewis, Pugh, T. Williams, B. Kirkhouse, H. Thomas, George Martin, &c. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the report of the committee appointed at the last meeting ...

... CHANGE OF LIBEL AGAINST A NEWPOltT DRAPER. COMMITTAL OF THE ACCUSED. At the Cardiff police-court, on Monday, before Mr R. O. tones and Mr Alderman Alexander, Robert blactxillan, travelling draper, residing in Newport, was again charged with having written and published a certain false, scandalous, and defamatory libel, upon Mr John Gunn, of Cardiff. Mr Morgan, Cardiff, appeared for Mr Gimn ...

... RHYMNEY INTELLIGENCE. PAITO8AHA.—Mr Williams, an enterprising yonnv Bow residing in this valley, has. after a hard and diligent, picce of work, been able to produce i» capital phant^ma. gorial exhibition, which was shown at the Church School- room, Maesycwmmer. on Monday evening, the room being cro ded to excess. The first part was composed of scenes representing the late Franco-Prussian Vt ...

... LORD SALISBURY ON EDUCATION. In his speech at Liverpool to the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, the Marquis of Salisbury said that events had imposed a fresh duty on the society. Formerly it was content with its original task of promoting the re- ligious teaching of the poor, but now it was the centre and mouthpiece of the ...

... LOCAL INTEIjllGEIfOE. VESTRY MEETING.—Oar Vestriea seem to be held with- LOCAL INTEIjllGEIfOE. VESTRY MEETING.—Our Vestries seem to be held with- out the knowledge of the public, though legally notified. A Vestry was held on Thursday, attended by five persons' for the election of a parish churchwarden. Mr Plews' solicitor, w fleeted, IT IS INTENDED to call in the fourpenny pieces, so as to ...

... EPFSS CHOCOLATK.—La Situation, in an article entitled France et Angleterre, says: Nous n'vons en France qu une seule usine on 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 by ...

... THE MERTHYR POST OFFICE AtRTVALN OF MAILS. The London, South &I Swt of England, Scotland, Ireland, Bristol, Glo'ster, Newport Mon.), Cardiff, Pontypridd, South Wales, and Foreign Parts 5.15 morn „ WORTH MAIL. From North of England, Scotland, Ireland, North Wales, Glo'ster, Bristol, West of England, Newport (Mon.), Pontypridd, Cardiff, and South Wales 12.50 after. From 10.30 morn. Leirnow BAT ...

... Mr. Arthur Otway, M.P., denies being the author of the pamphlet entitled Who is Responsible for the Wtr r and signed Scrutator. At the marriage festivities of Mr. Robert Clark, Super- intendent of Lowestoft Harbour Works, on Tuesday, a cannon burst on the Harbour Quay, and severely wounded two Coastguard officers, named Smith and Clark. A tradesman, named Cooper, was also injured in the arm ...