... SALMON POACHING. — At; the weekly petty- sessions on Monday—before MrR. RickardsaudMr G. C. Williams, Lla,nrumney Hall-'Geo. Tho'nas, living at Whitchurch, wa.s charged with having in his possession a, spear for sahnon-hshing. Sydney Dunks, water bailiR under the Tail Fiahery Con- servators, said that on tIie 17th nit. he was at St. Pagan's, near the Nant-Dowlais brook, and saw the defendant ...

... NOT; S ON AGRICULTURE. [BY A PRACTICAL FARMER.] LONDON, March 30.—The corn dealers yesterday were excited over the extraordinary political ru- mours of the last few days, which culminated in the resignation of the Earl of Derby, and a rise of 2s to 3s per quarter was obtained. This spurt, however, in my opinion, is merely the result of speeuiators taking advantage of the war-feeling tilitt ...

... HEIFERS POISONED BY EATING YEW. In a of heifers poisoned, belonging to Wm. Harrison, a farmer, near Lyduey, it has been dis- covered by Mr Powell, a local veterina.ry surgeon, that the animais died in consequence of eating yew. ...

... EASTER MONDAY WITH THE WELSH CALVIN- ISTIC METHODISTS,—This great aud energetic body of Nonconformists held their second annual Asso- ciation for Juveniles on Easter Monday, at their suaeious chapel, when upwards of six hundred children assembled together to repeat the Life of our Savioar, and to sing hymns from Mr. Sankey's hymn-book, (Teuan Gwyllt's translation). The Association is made ...

... ARNOLD COLLEGE, WOODLANDS. — From the reports, just issued, of the preliminary examina- tion of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, held on the 1st inst., we learn that the two, pupils presented from this school (principal, Rev. Edgar Williams, M.A.). were successful, viz. —Mr Lev/is Jones, of New Quay, Cardigan- shire and. Master Joseph Harry, of Lhm- gennech, Carmarthenshire. The ...

... BLAENAVON. ON Sunday the English Baptists, Broad-street, held their Sabbath School anniversary. Three sermons were preached by the Rev. Isaac Watts, of Abergavenny. The large chapel was crowded. The reciting and singing were gone through under the leadership of Mr D. Bowen. The collections realised £11 8s. ...

... OURLONDoFcORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. Every day the patch of blue sky in the midst of the political firmament becomes fainter and smaller. To-day the whole heavens are covered with the threatening war-clouds. The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Daily Neics telegraphs that the conviction is becoming more and more general that war has been decided upon by the Beaconsfield ...

... KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES contain no Opium, Morphia, nor any violent druir. It is the most effective remedy known to the Medical Profession in the cure of Couons, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS -one Lozenge alone relieves. The celebrated Dr. J. BRINOLOE, M.K.C.S.L., L.S.A., I.M., writes July 25, 1877, Your Lozenges are excellent, and their benolicial effects most reliable I stronuiy re- commend them. So ...

... RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO LONDON. The Queen, with Princess Beatrice and the court, will leave Osborne shortly before three o'clock on Thursday afternoon for Windsor, ar- riving there at 5.55.This is stated,to be one of the shortest stays Her Majesty has ever made in the Isle of Wight at this season of the year. A council will shortly be held at Windsor, ...

... THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. On Saturday, in fine weather, was rowed the thirty-fifth TB°^TI race between the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and resulted in an easy victory for Oxford, the course being from Putney to Mortlake, as it has been on every occasion since 1846. Owing to a great extent to the prevalent belief that Oxford was sure to win the number of people on the river banks was ...

... I,IIPOP,'rA.NT NEAVS FKOM THE CAPM. SEVERE FIGHTING. Nc\v. n'.)..1 Capetown to Ma.rch 19th M to the following ciFect :—A messenger was sent to Tiui Macomo and his people on the 14th instant, giving them n.n opportunity to surrender, but they posi- tively refused to do so, although they were promised that their lives and property would be respected. An attack w:Ls consequently made upou them on ...

... THE DEFENCES OF CONSTANTI- NOPLE. [RENTER'S TELEGRAM,') CONSTANTINOPLE, Wednesday.— There is no foundation for the report that the Turka had discontinued the defensive works near Constantinople. Tho works are, on the contrary, being carried forward with redoubled activity. ...