... PONTYPRIDD. ERKE.MASGNKY- — On Monday evening, the tirst ses- sional supper oithM Merlin Lodge of freemason* WIB given at the -\ssembiy room. New Ion Po^tv pridd. Tbe lodge w .s opened in tine form Bmf.her J. Edwards Price. In tbe unavoidable absence of Brother Matthew Brother \V. Morris was iS W. The duties of the having ended, the brethren adjourned '1.o the tupiwr which bad been laid i by ...

... At he Plenary Copference to-day, -ays the P«ra C-> ...

... The Lord Chancellor took his seat at 5 o'clock. THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. The Earl of ROSEBERY rose to put a question to the noble Earl at the head of the Government, of which he had given him private notice. In the course of the discussion on Tuesday the noble Earl, wishing to give the House the most striking illustration of the complete ignor- ance that prevaded tlie whole of Europe, and ...

... The monthly meeting of this board was held on Thurs- day. The member,3 present were the Revs Aaron Davies (chairman), J. P. Williams, LL.D., R. Williams, Rev J. E. Griffiths, and Mr David Morgan. Some ordinary business having been disposed of, The CHAIRMAN read an important letter from Mr John Rowlands, the master of the Newtown school. The letter stated that in the monthly return of ...

... From various sides, says the Vienna correspondent of the Times, versions are published about the answer which the Powers are supposed to have agreed upon to give to the Russian circular note. All such versions are, to say the least, premature. No such agree- ment has been come to. It seems to be felt on all sides that the 'answer. in whatever sense or form it may be given, will be of decisive ...

... MESSRS HUTCHINSON AND TAYLEURE'S CIRCUS.—This place of entertainment is, as usual, being filled nightly with delighted audiences, before whom the enterprising proprietors place as usual a tempting bill of fare. To vary the thousand and one performances of the sawdust, Messrs Hutchinson and Tayleure have this week intro- duced to the notice of their patrons two gentlemen of the burnt cork ...

... MK»TIKO.—'A meeting of the ratepayers of the parish el Talgarth was held on Wednesday last at the luntish sohoolroom, Talgarth. Mr J* M. Bowen ocioglw the obaiii, The meeting was convened to take into consideration the best plan to be adopted to meet the re^nixameats of the sanitary board in this plaoe. Upon th« ttigftrttian of the sanitsary inspeater representing the hoard, a local committee ...

... — On Thursday evening last the sixiQjt of a series of literary and musical entertainments w4- fetid at the National school, which was crowded. TV#- &Aft Was occupied by the Rev J. Lewis. Miss CStfltopher presided at the piano. The following ladies ao9 rtfetleibeh took part Llew Cynon. E. Lewis, MWjQj^ards, B. Cook, T, John. J. W. Luke. The Christy Hinstrels appeared, and gave a vejfry ...

... CARDIFF CALEDONIAN SOCIETY. Last night the members of the Cardiff Caledonian Society held their second annua dinner in the Cardiff Arms Hotel, Cardiff. AI out 30 gentlemen sat down to an excellent repast served a Piixtse. Mr Tom Holmes, of Newport, occupied the chair, and Mr Robert .Lrskine the vice-chair, these geutjemen heiug supported by, amongst others, Councillor brans (Cardiff), Messrs ...

... At the annual meeting of the London Baptist Associa- tion, held in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, the Rev C. H. Spurgeon delivered an address, in which he said that the main object of the existence of a church on earth was the ingathering of sinners. Qhapels, he added, should be comfortable, so as to give the Gospel a fair chance, and should not be like the negro who sowed a tenth of his field ...

... COUNTERFEIT AND WORTHLESS UNIVER- SITY DEGREES. WE publish in another column a letter from a WeMi gentleman, resident in Brittany, on a ques- tion specially important to Wales, and which the recent discussion in our columns on Lampeter College and Welsh education has forced into pecu- liar prominence. Our correspondent selects for his text a sentence in one of the leading articles of the South ...

... ROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT ———-$.— LONDON. TUESDAY EVRNTM. TIte qaestlon now is whether Turkey Is to be ...