... To the Bditor of the Free Prets. Sir,-WiR you allow me to correct the report contained in your valuable paper of last week with reference to the above. The adjudicator (Mr D. Bowen) in giving his adjudication on the anthem, Open ye the gates, linked Nos 1, 4, and 5 choirs as being wanting in harmony;-these were the Blaenavon, Tabernacle (Baptist), and Primitive Methodist, Pontypool. He (Mr B. ...

... English wheat in fair supply; prices unaltered. Foreign in fair demand, at Is to 2s advance upon last week. Barley, 3d cheaper. Maize, 3d dearer. Oats steady. ...

... 2,500 ZULUS AND 220 BRITISH KILLED AND WOUNDED. The Evening Standard of Tuesday published the follow- ing (tent through Beuter's Agency) CAPETOWN (via St. Vincent), April 8. Lord Chelmsford reached Gingihlovo, on the road to Ekowe, on April 1, at 6 p.m. An engagement took place on the 2nd of April, in which 1,200 Zulus were killed. Captain Wood reports from Basutoland the capture of 2,200 head ...

... A Correspondent of The Times gives an interesting de- scription of the city of St. Paul, as also Minneapolis, from which we make the following extracts :— Few cities on the North American continent equal St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, in picturesqueness of situation. It is built on three terraces, rising to the height of 200 feet above the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. The lock, ...

... PONTYPOOL LOCAL BOARD. The first meeting of the above Board was held on Friday. Present: Messrs E. II. Davies, II. Lewis, W. H. Rosser, J. Williams, G. J. Jee, T. Williams, W. Williams, D. Davies, W. Parkhouse, R. Russell, J. Jones, H. Fox, D. Williams, T. Fletcher, W. Sandbrook, G. Gorrell, P. Eckersley, and G. Wilton. Mr E. H. Davies was unanimously voted to the chair, inasmuch as the affair ...

... Messrs. Schofield and Taylor, solicitors, Batley, to* Tuesday issued a circular on behalf of Messrs. T. C. Taylor and Co., dyers, etc., Birstall, York- shire, announcing suspension of payment by the latter firm, owing to failure of Logie and Nicoll, London. Liabilities are estimated at from £ 50,000 to £ 70,000. The assets consist largely of stock-in-trade. ...

... SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE.— Negotiatior§ for Peace I said Mrs. Muddler, reading a contents bill outside a newsvendor's. Why, I thought they hanged him long ago. But there, he's that olever he a been and tricked them again J —Judy. ...

... I SHOCKING ILL-TEEATMENT OF CHILDREN. At the Manchester Police Court on the 21th of January, Mary Ryves, the founder and propriavress- of an Orphan Home in Moreton street, Strange- ways, and who has also carried on a home for the reclamation of fallen women, was charged with having cruelly treated Ada and Alice Hol- land, aged respectively nine and eleven years, the daughters of Thomas ...

... The Jewish Chronicle tlJarns from Hong Kong that Mr. E. R. Beilios, a co-religionist, and late chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, has placed £100G in the hands of the Governor for the erection of a bronze statue of Lord Beaconsfield in the city of Victoria, Hong Kong. ...

... Two engines coiiiu^u uu .ju^uay on the North British Railway, near Kirkintilloch. The driver and fireman were dangerously hurt. Both engines were wrecked and much rolling stock destroyed. Drought and the smallpox epidemic are increas- ing in the north-east provinces of South America. There were 473 deaths from smallpox in the capital of the province of Cerea. during the twenty days ending ...

... OUR POSITION AT THE CAPE. [FROM THE THIES, 1 We have as clear a right to forbid Cetywayo to threaten our colonies as we have to prevent the French from assembling a vast army at Pondi- nherry. But, assuming that the chastisement of the Zulu King and the destruction of his dangerous power are politic and just measures, it remains to be determined whether the Imperial Government or the ...

... At the Central Criminal Court., on Monday, the Recorder advised the grand jury to return a true bill against Hannah Dobbs for the murder of Miss Hacker in Euston square. Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have in preparation a new series of Classical Reading Books for the lower forms of schools, selected from the beat Greek and Latin authors. Miss Florence Hyde and Mr. Ives, members cf Mr. DOyley ...