... Mr. Tracy Turnerelli writes from the Charing Cross Hotel, under date August 2nd:— ...

... PONTNEWYNYDD. j BETHANY SUNDAY SCHOOL.—On Thursday, the 31st ult., the teaches and scholars jf the above- named Sunday School, with some friends, assem- bled together in oreier to partake of their annual tea, which was thorouglily enjoyed by them. After tea aud subsequent gainc> in a field, which was kindly lent for the occasion by Mr Jones, a public meeting took place in the chapel, when Mr ...

... The Bank rate is unaltered. A Cabinet Council was held on Thursday (yester- day) at the Premier's official residence, and was attended by all the ministeis. ...

... (Written for the Free Press.) Most people have, at some period or other experienced peculiar diffidence and embarrass- ment in describing scenes in which they them- selves were actors. To the present writer this feeling is somewhat enhanced by the fact that he is but treading in a track already well-tra- velled before, and by the knowledge that an interesting and able article recently appeared ...

... THE PASTORATE OF THE ENGLISH BAPTIST CHURCH- The Rev J. Cole, of Merthyr Vale, who preached here last Sunday, has accepted the pastorate of this church, which has been vacant since the death of the Rev Stephen Price. He will commence his duties on the first Sunday in June. ...

... AFFAIRS IN ZULULAND. The Colonial Secretary has requested Sir Garnet Wolseley to make known to Col. Bayley his sense of the admirable arrangements made by him for the cap- ture of Moirosis stronghold- ...

... THE SHOCKING OUTRAGE tjPON A GIRL NEAR PONTYPOOL. At the Magistrates' clerk's office, in Pontypool. on Wednesday last, William Hobbs and Albert Smith, farm servants were brought up on remand from the piewous I ritlay, charged with committing a rape upon the person of Mary Newman, on the night of the 9th inst., at Llanvjir Kilgeddin. Mrelltyd Gardner, Aber- gavenny, appeared for the prosecution ...

... We beg to remind our readers that the FREE PRESS will, next week, be published one day earlier than usual, namely, on Thursday morning, in- stead of Friday. Advertisers will oblige us by making their arrangements accordingly. ...

... The Times correspondent at Candahar, under date of December 6, sends the folio vin^ There is nothing new to record this week, except that a rumour is current in the city that Ayub Khan, with 12 regiments of infantry and three of cavalry, has marched from Herat with a view to drawing us out of Candabar. Such a movement is not unlikely, but it is to be feared that Ayub's troops will never come ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-On Saturday morning, Mrs Derrett, of Usk,while going to the railway station, slipped on the ice and broke her right leg in two places. She was conveyed home and attended by Dr. Shepard, and is now going on as favourably as can be expected. ...

... Since the abandonment of the Glasgow lottery scheme a large number of gentlemen in Glasgow and elsewhere have been in consultation as to the practi- cability of adopting some other plan whereby relief can be afforded the unfortunate shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank. These consultations have now led to the adoption of a scheme which, it is believed, will meet the object in view, and the ...

... The Daily News of Tuesday publishes the following letter, from their Correspondent at Rome Nowhere has this exceptionally severe spring been felt so acutely as on the mountain passes between Switzerland and Italy. Only a few hours' journey from the spot where Her Majesty has been enjoying ber villeggiatura occurred a scene of disaster and death rarely paralleled in those regions of snowdrift ...