... At the last annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist body a scheme was adopted for the in- troduction of laymen into conference together with the ministers, the new mixed conference thus comprising 240 ministers and 240 laymen. Of the 240 laymen, 12 have seats in the conference by virtue of their official position as treasurers of eight connexional funds; eighteen were nominated by the last ...

... AN INQUEST was held on Saturday touching the j death of Titus Lewis, an old man who met his death by falling from a hay-rick, near Penyrheol, on Thursday se'nnight. A verdict of Accidental death was returned. CRANE STREET CHAPEL.—The services of this place of worship were conducted, on Sunday last, by the Rev. H, Bright, the blind preacher, of London. His discourse in the evening was listened ...

... There is a project afoot for importing to England some of the famous trotting horses of America for breeding purposes. The American Live Stock Journal thinks we are not likely to get any of the best until we open our purses much mor* widely than we have yet doue. It says When our cousins on the other side of the Herring Pond will pay from Z2,000 to £ 4,000 guineas for an American trotter they ...

... MARK LANE —MOKDAT. The heaviness in the grain trade continues. Transactions are throughout extremely moderate, and the tendency of prices is in favour of buyers. English wheat was in very short supply but good condition. Millers were very un- willing operators. Scarcely anything was done, and prices may be written Is. to iil. per qr. lower on the week Foreign wheat also was difficult to move, ...

... The ordinary meeting of this Board was held on Friday evening, the 28th of June. Present:— T. HEMMING, Esq., V.C., in the chair; Also Messrs Steel, W. Edwards, J. Edwards, Kay, A. Morgan, Rev W. Rees, J. M. Jones, W. B. Law- rence, Dr Ball, and officers. The collector stated that the present assessment value was .£1000 higher than last year, owing to some coal works belonging to the Blaenavon ...

... The monthly meeting of this Board was held at Poutypool Town Hall on Wednesday last. Present H. LEWIS, Esq. (in the chair), Messrs A. A. Williams, J. Daniel, and M. Ed. .wards, and H. Bythway (clerk). The minutes of the last meeting were road and confirmed. The clerk produced a letter he had received from Mr Thomas, of Gamdiffaith Board Schools, enclosing a plan of the proposed alterations and ...

... KEW MAGISTRATES. The following gentlemen took the oaths and i qualified as magistrates for the county:—Mr W. Evans, The Fields, Newport; Mr G. A. Brown, Tredegar; Mr R. W. Hamilton, Castletown; Mr Reginald Yaughan, Llantilio-Crossenny; Mr H. C. Gould, Llantwit-Major, Glamorgan; Mr Jas. Graham, Hilstone, St. Maughans Mr A. T. D. Berrington, Pantygoitre; Mr Richard Easthram, Tregare; Captain J. ...

... At the Chapel Royal, Savoy, in the morning, Her Majesty's Chaplain, the Rev. Henry White, M.A.,en- 'orcéd on what he styled the festival-of the sad and ;he sick, the duty of having compassion one of mother (I Pet. iii., 8). As a man's joy is doubled when he has a partner to share it, so the sufferer's imart was lessened by sympathy. By their showing ;hat sympathy there was answered in them ...

... lltisallancous HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. RECIPE FOR GINGER BEER-In anticipation of the warm weather, which I suppose we may now expect, I send a most valuable recipe for ginger beer (says a correspondent of the Liverpool Albion). It has only to be tried to be appreciated, It is most refreshing in hot weather :—Boil 21 pints of water; when at boil- ing point pour over the following ...

... A mistake, which happily had no more tragical ter- mination than a somewhat untimely immersion in the waters of the Seine, occurred a night or two ago on the Quai des Orfevres. at Paris (remarks the Evening Standard). A married couple, relates the Patrie, separated after a violent altercation Apropos of some domestic disagreement, nourishing the solemn deter- mination never to see each other ...

... AN agricultural society offered a prise for the best mode of irrigation, which was printed irritation by mis- take. An honest farmer sent his wife to claim the prize. Why, Smith is dead! exclaimed an indignant friend to Brown; and you told me his fever had gone off. If you had not interrupted me with your gabble, re- plied Brown, I should have told you that he had gone off with it. A ...

... Elizabeth James (on bail), was indicted for stealing a pair of new boots, the property of I. Matthews, at Newport. Mr Maddy appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Lawrence, instructed by Messrs Gibbs and Llewellin, defended the pri- soner. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal. ...