... LISBON, Sunday.—Before resigning, the late Ministry concluded a Treaty of Com- merce, Navigation, Extradition, and Sup- pression of the Slave Trade between Por- tugal and Great Britain. The Treaty de- clares the Zambesi and its affluent* free to the commerce of the world, concedes to Great Britain the right of free transit of merchandise to and from the Transvaal, and iffords facilities for ...

... The Salvation Army will assemble at Ponty- pridd Station, to-day, at 11 a.m., and having marched to the Rocking Stone, on the common, will hold a grand revival meeting, lasting the whole day. The meeting will be addressed by a large number of ministers and others from Cardiff and elsewhere, including the ladies who have been doing such good work for the lievivalists in the Rltondda Valley. ...

... MRESiB'S. HUTCEIIgSONj AND TYLEsBE'S CIRCUS AT CARDIPP. I - There wae something exoeptionafly pleasing to the inhabitants of Cardiff in the grand ?? aforded by Messrs. Hutchinson and Tayleure, whose magnificent troupe, after parading the principal streets of thq town on Saturday, pitchod their tent in the Ton Acre Field. People had become so accaetomed to visit Messrs. Hutchinsce and ...

... VISIT OF MAJOR CAVAGNARI TO CABUL. SIMLA, Saturday. -M.-ijor Cavagnari will accompany the Ameer Yakoob Khan on his return to Cabul, escorted by a detachment of the Guides, and accompanied by Mr William Jenkyns, Assistant Commissioner at Peshawnr, and probably also by Major Lovett, of the Engineers, and a doctor. The aspect of affairs in Cabul is tranquiL Arrangements are proceeding for ...

... REVELATIONS IN THE COAL TRADE. THE LOSS OF LIFF--19413. The reports of Her Majesty's inspectors of mines for 1878 were issued oa Saturday. It ap- pears that in the acrsjresr ite 475,329 persons were employed in and about the coal, fireclav, ironstone, and shale mille of Great Britain and Ireland during the year. Of these 382,979 were employed underground, and 92,350 (of whom 4,956 were females ...

... The coal trade is in a very depressed state, operations having entirely ceased for some time at both the Pwllfaron and Dunraven-adare Col- lieries. Strong hopes are entertained of the former re-starting soon. NOTICES AT THE DEEP DYFFRYN AND NAVIGATION PITS. Notices to terminate all contracts with the workmen at the expiration of one, aioutb were posted on Saturday last, on the top of the Deep ...

... THE LATEST LEGAL TRIUMPH OF THE RITUALISTS. THE Ritualists have triumphed in what is known as the Clewer case, and if the legal contention, in which the Bishop of OXFORD figures so prominently, goes no further than the Court of Appeal, it will become recog- nised law that a Bishop of the Church of England may, or may not, allow aprosecution for illegal ecclesiastical practices, just as it may ...

... fiOOD NEWS FORSHARilOLDERS. [SPECIAL TELIGRA.lt. { Some pressure having been put upon the official liquidators of the West of England Bank to de- clare more frequent dividends than was previously iuteuded, we have authority to announce that the liquidators have decided to pay a second dividend early in July. The amount will be 4s in the pound, for which three-quarters of a million wiil be ...

... PEMBROKE FARMERS' CLUB. A meeting and dinner connected with this was held on Saturday. At the dinner, after the loyal toasts had been proposed, the chairman submitted the Army and Navy, referring in most touching terms to the death of Captain CampbeU, the president's son, who fell while gallantly serving under Colonel Wood in the Zulu war. The toast was reverently received. The secretary (Mr ...

... THE CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANSI 5 OPPOSITION TO THE OENRA,1I a UNION SOHEME. a REDUCTION IN THE ANNUAL EXPENDITURE. 2 The weekly meeting of the board was held at I a the Workhouse, on Saturday,- the chairman (Mr. r Q a. W. David) prosiding. The committes ap. f ted to consider the memorial sadressed to the a a %onal Government BoRrd by certain guardians of I i the Bridgend and Cowbridge ...

... Swansea promises to en fae throughout the week in observance of the biennial meeting of the Grand United Order of Oddfellow R, which has already been inaugurated. This body, which stands third in the category of Friendly Societies, allowing precedence only to the Manchester Unity and to the Foresters, now numbers more than 100,000 members in its ranks, that aggregate being represented on the ...

... - I- wZ : E On Saturday the meeting wd prosded over by Mr. Woodruff. There was a tolerably goo. ?? of pauper in the work- house, 27; cr-st s, 2 Edith Jam~e, aged two yer, hd de week. Nuber reeving ant-doo relief, 1,21 adults and 73 'children, at a Cost of £18S9 lOe. hi. Nuamber of children in the Oserleor -Schools, 15i> corresponding week, 167. The calls for the half- yesr;amounting to £6,235 ...