... EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS were held at Ebenezer (Calviuistic Methodist) chapel all the e k. The Rev. J. Pugh, of Tredegar, and the Rev. E. Morris, of Aberayron, were the ministers who officiated. Miss Thomas, of the Salvation Army, Ebbw Vale, also preached on Wednesday night. The meetings were well attended, and on Wednes- day night the cLapel was overcrowded, and scores were left outside. Several ...

... WE have several days' later news from South Africa to hand, the most interesting passage in which points to an armistice of a fort- night's duration between King CETEWAYO and the British forces. WTe should think that Lord CHELMSFORD is not sorry for this turn in the tide of events. No candid Englishman will feel other than pleased that there is. a possibility of averting the flow of a river of ...

... IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL AT CARDIFF. THE IMPENDING CRISIS. An important meeting of the Council of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Collieries' Association was held at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, on Thursday. The meeting was one of the largest that has been held in connection with this associa- tion for a long time. All the principal colliery proprietors were present, and who were ...

... A uispute has arisen at the Mountain As the men's terms were not accepted they gave a day's notice to leave. Two of them, however, went ou as before, and to show their disapproba- tion of those two men's conduct some unknown persons, on Saturday night, smashed the uiadowa of tneir houses. P.C. Smith lias been trying to find them out. but his efforts hitherto have been in vain. On Wednesday ...

... THE OPENIXG MATCH OF THE DUKE-STREET CRICKET CLUB (employes of Messrs Smith and Co.) was played in the Cardiff Arms Park on Wednesday. The sides were—Secretary v. Treasurer, 10 a Rirle. The game was decided in favour of the treasurer's team, on the the first innings, by 33 runs, the c' .ief contributors to the score being Messrs Garrett, and H. C. JoneF. The bowling of Messrs Davies and Butler ...

... ANGLO-CATHOLIC HOMES FOR CHILDREN. [BY A PROTESTANT INQUIRER.] While Parliament sets its face against periodical inspection of nunneries in the country, Anglo- Catholic homes are on the increase, in which the Ritualistic party in the Church of England play at Popery, The West of England has recently been the scene of several prosecutions, in the course of which most painful revelations have ...

... BETHEL BAPTIST CHUBCH.— On Sunday the Rev. T. A Pryce, pastor of the above otturch, baptized 46 persons. ...

... ENGLAND VERSUS AMERICA. A Sheffield con temporary says that one of th £ American orders has c>nie to Sheftel' ,M «ir ...

... INEBRIETY.—At the Pontvpridd police-court, on Wednesday—before the Stqiendiary (Mr G. Williams)—Edward Green, Hafod, was fined 56 Mid costs, for being drunk and ii >tous. WAG-BB CLAIM. .TOIJD Aubrey, blacksmith, Porto, summoned his late employers, the Cymmer Colliery Company, for wages alleged to be due. Complainant had declined to do certain work. and ha. I been discharged in ocnsequence. ...

... MEDICAL.—Messrs Evan Naunton Davies and Wiliirm Washington David trapsed their final examination for the L.S.A., London, on the 14th inst., and received their diplomas to practice. ...

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... A SERIES OF LETTERS TO INTEND- ING EMIGRANTS. [BY THE REV. J. DAVIES, PASTOR OF CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH, NORWICH, CONN., -U.S. I No. 9.—EMIGRANTS AND THE STATE OF RELIGIOUS PARTIES. I shall try to be very calm while writing this letter, though it may be hard work to keep so. The state of religious parties is a subject that moves me deeply, because of what it is in itself, and because of what it ...