... VA.YNOR PRTTY SESSIONS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH, 1878. (Before Dr. Davies, G. Overton, James Lewis, D. E. Williams, W. Powell, R. Edwards, EIgs.) DEBTOR AND CREDITOR AT LOGGERHEADS. -John Edwards was summoned for assault by Morgan Jones, Neyadd. Penderyn. Complainant said Edwards owed me £9 12s 6d. On the 5th of August I called on him. George Price and William Jones were with me at the time. Ed ...

... Mr. Mundella has addressed a large meeting of hit constituents in the Albert Hall, Sheffield. Arrange- ments having been made that admission should only be by ticket, the hon.gentleman secured an uninterrupted hearing. In the course of his speech he reviewed the work of the past session, dwelling particularly upon the results of the Berlin Congress. Nobody, he said, could rejoice more than he ...

... ASSAULT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. At the Barnsley Police Court a young man named Iram Sidney Smith, of respectable appearance, has been charged with an aggravated assault on Mary Ann Brignell, a lady's-maid, residing at No. 2, Montpellier Terrace, Scarborough, at Cudworth, on tho 11th inst. Mr. Young, of Birmingham, prose- cuted on behalf of the railway company. The com- plainant stated that on ...

... SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF A MERTHYR ? GENTLEMAN IN NEW YORK. r We have much pleasure in publishing the following extract from the American Grocer in our paper. The I subject of the biography is well known in Mertbyr, and his genial character and good-natured qualities ? will be remembered by many who reoollect him amongst us. His amiable wife also (a sister of Mr Chirm, t formerly of the Brunswick ...

... 5?7*1 W*MKNT -organisation of THA. Army Service Corps will be issued, according to Dra. sent intentions, on the 1st of October next It K understood that it will practically annul and supersede ADMTTTID*^L FFI871' £ Y WHICH ^UNG GENTLEMEN wer« !N ...

... The Chippenham Liberal Association haa recom- mended the adoption of Mr. Samuel Butler, of Combe t Hay Park, near Bath, as the Liberal candidate for the borough at the next election. Major O'Gorman, M.P., denies the truth of the statement that he does not intend to offer himself for re-election for Waterford city. He intends to retain his seat as long as he retains health and the confidence of ...

... WHAT THE WOKLD SAYS. (Notes by Atlas.) Mr. Archibald Forbes has arrived in London, and is preparing fc? hi* American lecturing campaign, which will commence in December. His experiences of Cyprus will be found detailed in the next number of the Nineteenth Century. It is not quite yet that the clue is patent to the motive for England's declinature to adhere to Ger- many's proposal for ...

... A third Baptist meeting-house will shortly be won. Itrnoted in the Trastevere, Rome; its pastor is the Rev Alessandro Petocchi, who has been for two years a labourer in that field. There are now nine different evangelical bodies in Rome, viz,: The Waldensians, the Wesleyans, the Methodists, the Episoopal Methodists, the Free Church, the Presbyterians, the Plymouth Brethren, the American ...

... The Melbourne Araut says:—News reacHnA M.i bourne on the 24th of the totally of thJhS James Service, belonging to that port, on her v^J!! from Calcutta to Melbourne with a cargo of ra»»qfl and country produce. As all the crew and passe^S have been lost, it will nevar be known how was caused, but from her position it is verv «ri she must have been several hundred miles 2* lU proper course. Hie ...

... A fire has occurred at a public-house in Northl street, Portsea. The front part of the premises WM gutted, but the police, with the steam fire-engine, eo*« fined the fire to the house. Mr. M'Arthur, M.P. for Lambeth, huleft England on a visit to the Australian Colonies and New land. The hon. gentleman will not return before the opening of Parliament. Three men have been charged, at Bow-street ...

... (Notes by Atlas.) Mr. Archibald Forbes, en route from Cyprus to Eng- land, has been laid up with a touch of fever at Mes- aina, b1ít is expected home shortly. Referring to the proposed elevation of Mr. Wills to the Bench in place of Mr. Justice Mellor, how is it that the Government have not thought of offering the vacant seat to Sir Fitzjames Stephen ? This promotion would add strength to the ...

... DYKh'a SAMl'AitY WO K. Merthyr was at one time in a most unfortunate position. It had a death-rate varying ffom 26 to 30 in the thousaud and in t.he registrar's books was noted having given ill the fatal cholera epidemic of 1849, something like a thousaud sufferers to the grave. But this fearful »dow brought about a change. It is in the natuie of things that odaiuities not unfreq lentlv do so. ...