... BRISTOL.. TIT3 DEAF AND DUMB OF BRISTOL AND NEIGHBOUR- HOOD, to the number of 00, were treated by the Rev ;W. J. Mayers and bis friends, in tlie vestry adjoining City-road Chapel, on Friday evening, Feb. 1st, with all excellent tea. Grateful and cheerful faces greeted the eyes of the visitors, and those Idndly waited on them at the tables, After tea the company retired to the large schoolroom ...

... ECHOES OF THE WEEK, [CONTRIBUTED BY PETElt I'LAYI-AIR. ] Those who have taken an interest in Prophecy, must have followed recent events in the East anxiously, for it has long been predicted that the Turk would fall, as indicated in the eleventh chapter of Daniel. The pro- phecy, to my mind, has been realised with marvellous exactitude. Let me quote from verse 40 (chapter xi.):— 43. And at the ...

... THE SINGIJUR DEATH AT THE CARDIFF POLICE-STATION. Early on Sunday morning a man, who was believed to be a private of the 41st Regiment, was found by the Caroiff police in state of insensibility, supposed to pro- ceed from drunkenness, in Mill-lane, Cardiff. He was conveyed to the police station where it was discovered that lie was dead, as has been already reported. The cir- cumstances ...

... ADOLYGIAD AH LYFRAU. Hancs gan Dcifydd Movganwg.—Bu y tes- tun hwn yn gystadleuol yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1861, pan y dyfarnwyd y wobr i'r awdwr, Oddiar y pryd hwnw y mae efe wedi ilafurio yn dJlrfawr i heh aethu a pherifeiihio y gwaith, fsl erbyn hyn y mae yn ffurfio cyfrol faintiolus a hardd, yn cael ei lutfliiurno gan amryw o arluniau ardderchog, Y mae eiJieu mwy o wcithiau or natur ...

... NO. 2.-L0RD ABERDARE. The lifo of Henry Austin Bruce, now becoming more familiarly known asL ird Aberdare, supplies a good homely illustration of the opportunity afforded to an English- man of rising by sheer force of merit to the highest offices of influence in the State. It shows that to begin life well down amongst bustling, struggling, hard-work- ing professional men, and to end it as a ...

... [BY A PRACTICAL FARMER.] CORN. LONDON, Saturday.—There has been no excitement in the corn trade. It is true that all Friday speculators took advantage of what was interpreted as a declaration of war by Great Britain against Russia, in support of the Turk, and demanded a rise of Is to 28 per quarter on wheat, according as each speculator placed faith in the wisdom of the Premier. But even this ...

... Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Caerphili.-Y mM Hon genym Rael ar ddeall fod rhagolygon .yr ^teddiod Lon nior JWvvn-.lm«. Y mae y P'.vyllgor yn dangos doetnineo canvoladwy vn eu dc-wisiad o destynau addas, ac yn eu gwaith yn cyfyngu hyd y cyfansoddiadau o fewn terfynau cymedrol. Cynygir gwobr dda am awdl ar li ilau! vnehvd a chadair dderw, ac ni chamateir i rawalfod dros 300 o linellau. Dyma gam yr: ...

... [SPECIAL RKFORF FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MIDDLESBOROUUH, Tuesday. — The attendance was- thiri. Business was slack in pig iron. A little was sold to consumers who could not do without it, at, maker's price. The producer's quotations arc firmly maintained on the basis of 41s for No. 3 G.M.B. Iron chairs in good request for home railways. One firm has within the last few days secured orders ...

... WESLEYAN CLERICAL COLLEGES. The Wosleyan Theological Institution for the training of young men for the ministry is divided into three branches-one at Richmond, near London, one at Dids- bary, near Manchester, and one at Headingley, near Leedi. The Richmond institution is chieSy for the training of yonng men for the foreign missions, but it is under consideration whether or not the foreign and ...

... ENGLAND, THE RUSSIANS, AND THE TURKS. EVEXTS are transpiring with lightning speed. Those of the last eight days have been so varied and so wonderful as to suggest the well-worn query- Where are we ? The groat debate in the House of Commons, on the vote of credit for six millions sterling collapsed last week, under the sensation produced by a telegram from Mr LAYARD that the Russians were ...

... HEM A RKABLFWOKCE SUIT. On Thursday the suit of Simmoncis r. Simmonds was heard before Sir James Hannen, Mr Waddy, Q.C., Mr F. A. InJerwick, Q.C., and Mr Bargrave Deane ap- peared for the petitioner. The respondent did not appear, and was not represented by counsel. The respondent at the time of his marriage with the petitioner, which took place at Boston, in Lincolnshire, in April, 1872, was ...

... THE SOUTH WALES MERCANTILE PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY. The fu'st annual report f. this society reads as fol- lows :—It has been thought desirable to close the books concurrently with the year, so that a period of eleven months only is comprised in the statement 01 accounts. Taking this circumstance into account, and hearing in mind the depressed condition of trade throughout the district, the ...