... A memorial has been transmitted to the Emperew of Russia from the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society submitting that the present Congress affords an appropriate occasion such as has not been presented since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, for carrymj into full and oomplete effect the consensus then ar. rived at on the subject of the Slave Trade and slavery, and in view of the fact that ...

... AN ARGENTINE REVOLUTION. Details are given by some of the American journals of the recent revolt of the Conciliationists against Governor Oriondo, at Santa Fè, the capital of the Argentine province of that name. The date on which the outbreak was to take place was known, and Orioudo had received warning that tne hour of eleven Poll). had been fixed for the outbreak, and his soldiery was on the ...

... DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE. Further particulars have now come to hand of the terrible Earthquake in Venezuela, by which 300 per- eonl were killed. It appears that the fine and pro- mising town of Cua has been totally destroyed. The disaster occurred on the 14th April, about half-past eight in the evening. The ground rolled like waves, throwing down houses and walls, and crushing many persons in the ...

... With reference to the South Ifortbumberland election petition, Mr. Gray writes, I propose to pro- ceed with my petition, which is to bs *eard on June 24th. Admiral Hornby, who is at presd the guest of Baker Pasha, has made a minute ini,mation of the lines of defenoe outside Constantinople A telegram from Constantinople ..tes that an agitation is prevalent in the highest uroles for the ...

... AT Y BEIRDD A'R LLENORION CYMREIG. Y GOLOFN FARDDOL. Neillduir Ux G-OLOFN' o'r Telegraph at wasanaeth y Beirdd, &c. Pob Gohebiaeth o barthed y cyfryw idd eu danfon (yn ddidraul) i JoxATHAX REYNOLDS (Nathan Dyfed), 1, Mill-street, Merthyr, yr hwn (yn dra gwylaidd) sydd wedi ymgymeryd a dethol y Farddoniaeth a chywiro'r prawfleni. Hyderir y gwerthfawrogir y cyfleusdra hwn er Gwella moes a defod, ...

... THE POPE. A telegram from Rome says :-The rumours of a proxinate abdication of Leo XIII. are totally devoid of foundation. They spring from the fact that the Pope declared a few days ago that he would willingly give 11 phil orown, but that his cross he must bear to the ei d, especially when shared by so excellent a Secretary of State as Cardinal Franchi. An Eng- lish Catholic Mission will aoon ...

... MERTHYR BOARD OF GUARDIANS. ALTERATIONS IN THE RELIEF SYSTEM. MR RHYS AND MR D. E. WILLIAMS. The weekly meeting of the Merthyr Board of Guar- dians was held last Saturday. There were present- Mr R. H. Rhys in the chair, Rev A. Davies, Messrs B. Kirkhouse, John Williams, W. L. Daniel, Thomas Williams, C. E. Matthews, Powell. T. Jenkins, George Martin, Jenkin Matthews, Rees Evans, William Jones, ...

... VARIETIES-GRAVE AND GAY. ...

... A Paris correspondent writes to a contemporary :— A frightful death, attributed, and prima, foci* rightly, to hydrophobia, has befallen a young, amiable, and accomplished gentleman, who seemed entering on life with the world at his feet. M. Cheri Montigny, son of M. Montigny, manager of the Gymnase rheatre, and the incomparable actress, Rose Chen, who, twenty-one years ago, sacrificed her own ...

... EARL GREY ON THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT. In a letter to the Timet, Earl Grey expresses the surprise and regret with which he react the memo- randum recently published. On the evening of Mon- day, the 3rd inst., he inquired of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there was any truth in the statement which had appeared In the Globe of the Friday before as to the terms of an ...

... Whatever a woman asserts, you may as well admit as once, for she will never yield. A suicide by use of the pistol is an attempt to boIta tii problem of life by trigger-nometry. There is no man who needs so much watching as the c ;d who is always watching someone else. fhe champiou time-waster is now Rebecca Moore, has just finished a quilt containing 20,173 piecea. A physiologist estimates ...

... KECKITT'S PARIS BLUE.—The marked superority of HIS Laundry LUue over all others, and the quick appreciation ~of its merits by the Public has been attended by the usual result viz a flood ot imitations the merit of the latter maiulj con- its merits by the Public has been attended by the usual result viz a flood ot imitations the merit of the latter maiuly con- sists in the ingenuity exerted, ...