... SWASE A SCHOOL BOARD. IM- ?? I A - n+1w1~ - A- i; MM . . 1-- th- iI E o The usual monthly meeting of this board was held on Wednesday, Mr. T. Trew, chairman of the board, presiding. There was a full attendance of members. The echools management committee brought op their report, which included a new scale for the re-adjnstment of teachers' salaries. The oi-n. mittee recommended that the ...

... '&1 ARl correspondlents must writa on usn sIoE of the paper only, or their letters will be reje~ted. OR] DR. WAL TERS, THE VACANT PROCTOR. SHIP, AND TEE PASTORAL AID rJOCIETY. $ ;09ln-o; iepeo 9f to.u'iy thqre tare eaten. sire quoaixons mae kot by MrIrvd 1 Lianifigan, and M U, Po-'et?, 9!f Pcrenoergast, fremaprir ti e ir, written byrme to the Her. Aaon&ert of Ca~rmiarthen, on the 25th of ...

... A speciel meeting of this body was held at the. Pilotage-office on Tuesday, for the purpose of framing a reply to the memorial sent from the pilots to the Board of Trade, asking that the certificates of Howe and Samuel might be returned, and that a re-oonstitution of the Pilotage Board might take place, a copy of the memorial a having been sent down to the commissioners in 4 order that thoy ...

... BIGAMY AT PONTYPOOL. Henry Rowlands, 38, railway porter, on bail, pleaded Siilty to an indictment charging him with marrying argaret Bell, on the 6th day of September, 1877, his former wife being then alive. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the prisoner, and called the Under Sheriff (Mr. Edwards) and CoL Byrde, both of whom gave him a good eharacter. In consideration of this the learned Judge ...

... The collection ef pictures belonging to Mr. Munroe, Turner's executor, were sold at Christie's on Saturday. The rooms were crowded to suffo- cation, and the prices were extraordinarily high, forty pictures realising 20,000 guineas. ...

... CARDINAL MANNING AND THE LATE POPE. Cardinal Manning presided on Tuesday fit a crowded meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence League at Exeter Hall, London. There were four processions to the hail, headed by bands of music. At the com- mencement of the proceedings an address was pre- sented to the cardinal, congratulating him on his recovery and safe return from Borne. His Eminence replied ...

... RUSSIAN PRIVATEERS. The Russian Minister of Finance has issued a circular to the governors of the Russian provinces, informing Them of the permission accorded to the Moscow Society for the Development of the Russian Marine to open subscription lists on behalf of the establishment of a fleet of privateers, and ordering them to further the project by every means in their power. Every month the ...

... fFROM THE TIMES.] It is obvious that the present acoession to our military strength is numerically slight as compared with what it would be if the system had been longer in existence and were in full operation. Bus even immature as it is, the in- stitution now gives us an addition to the com- batant portion of our army the timely and solid value of which in the event of war is not to be ...

... At a Board of Trade inquiry at Hull, on Saturday, into the stranding of the steamer Cossack, the captain's certificate was suspended for fonr months. ...

... A Tavistock correspondent, writing on Satur- day, says:- There is strike among the miners employed at Devon Great Consols, which strike, if carried out in its entirety, will throw over 700 hands out of work. Five hundred and sixteen came out on Saturday. ...

... FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT THE DOCKS.—On Thursday morning a French sailor named C. Hervie, while at work at the mainmast on board the French vessel Havre, lying in the West Dock, Cardiff, fell from the same a distance of about forty feet, alighting on his hands and face on the deck, fracturing his skull severely, damaging his face, and breaking his right thigh. FIRE IN BRIDGE-STREET.—At a quarter ...

... [SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] £ 176,000 gold taken out. B;y»k Reserve 32 per cent. Consols, to !)41; Russians, 73's, íôi; Egyptian Preferred, jlt: Unified, 29 to 29*; French, Italians, and United States Bonds, higher. Railways better; Brighton Deferred, 1231: tol23i; South Eajstern Deferred, 119^ to 119. Rape oil, 33s Vel linseed, 27s 3d. ...