... The.following is an extract from aletterof Mica 3M. Bentham Edwards :-° I sendyon the following particulars of a recent scientific invention, just patented, and destined, without doubt to plsy a very important part in our economic Lietory. I I think it mast be ?? as a solation for once and for all of the great coal question, or rather fuel question, not only among ourselves, but abroad. M. ...

... THE INTEROCEANIC CANAL, One of our Paris Correspondents writes: Au account of the utility, cost, and profit of tho new enterprise set on foot by Count Ferdinand do Lesseps, may be given in few and plain ?? It is a plan to cut through the American Isthmus and if successfully worked out it will shorten the voyage of ships travelling between the Atlsnti* and Pacific Oceans as below stated: Froi ...

... rONTYPBIDD, MONDAY. The engine which rolled down the embankment on Saturday was raised six feet to-day from the side of the embankment, and it is anticipated that the whole work will be completed by to-morrow night. The trains run over the rails through to Cowbridge to-d iy all right. The persons shaken and contused by the concussion continue to pro- gress well. Miss Daniels had not, however, ...

... LOCAL AND G(E NERAL O. A meeting of the Hunslet United Liberal Association, which lies been formed to amalgamnate thle ~.different sections of the Liberal party in Hlunslet, was a held ori Triursday eveoine atti LbeaCl, r va ~arsliit~le n te cair Ar. Aid. Bower attended. irs COthe course ofth co evening, and said it gave him pleassuce er to belong to an. assocration forined wvith tile ...

... ALIKE in France anl Belgium, the anti- clerical conflict has made a definitive advance within the ,ast few days. All parties are alive to the gravity of the struggle, which has gained fresh vitality by so pronounced a Republican as M. JULES SIMON going over to the clerical section. M. SIMON values liberty rmch, but hates perse- cution more. He thinks it would be a species of persecution tJ ...

... i,'n j16 r*i,way. of tlie country have not the wducdon to wo^Sfe^X^^omparS with the corresponding half of1878, was £ 137 000 But the saving is due chiefly to eno; omv in expenditure in horses, and vans, and ma- terials. When the agitation was stirring for a reduction of wages on the railways, it was thought that the half-year's accounts of that great line would have shown some economy on that ...

... THE FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT AT SWANSEA. Me Gaskoin, depity-coroner, held an inquest at the Copperman's Arms, St. Thomas, on Monday, upon the body of William Seale, shipwright, who was drowned in Swansea Bay on Saturday even. ing.—Captain Seale, deceased's father, said his son was a married man. He last saw him alive on Saturday morning at four o'clock.-Llewellvn Evans, a shipwright, living in ...

... Dean of Llandaff continued his Bible readings on Monday evening, at the Prebendal House, Llandaff, u hen he took up the first part of St. Paul's Epistle to the Thessalonians -the subject of his reminiscences, of his visit, and the effect of his preaching to them. There was a very large attendance. The Dean ex- plained that the epistle was most probably written from Corinth and was, so to say, ...

... T HE BREAK-W-lt. A I - MAILT SERVICXE.' , he2 inter-conimunication with Englad by way 1 of Holyhead has been completely stopped. No mails have arrived at Klingstown since Sunday morning. The direct railway communication between Holyaead and Chostcr is entirely stopped, owing to the sweeping away of the railway some four miles from Abergele. Eleven arches of the Voryd Viaduct have been entirely ...

... GREAT STORM BLOCK or mmx IRISH MATL DISASTROUS Owing to the heavy floods having so damaged. the railway between Conway and Bangor, the Irish mail service, says » Central News telegram, is disarranged, and the arrival of the mail steamer at Kingstown from Holyhead continues irregular. The Ulster, due at 6 on Sunday, did not arrive until 2 P.M. yesterday. She conveyed neither mails nor ...

... At Bzistol polioe-court, on Monday (before Messrs. C. Gedwin end B. Leonard), I. H. blorriasey, owner and captain of zhe ship Mose Glen, was charged with violently ashaultng his mate, Mr. Hugh MbPheraon, on the high seas. Blr. Parr prosecuted, and Mr. Press defended. The evidence given by the complainant, and sup- ported by several witnesses, showed that the ship was a new one, and left St. ...

... PRESENTATION. At the close of the evening service, on Sunday, at the Calvinistic Methodist Chao el, an impressive and Lteresting ceremony took place. It appears that t o young men— Mr Rees Jones ana Mr J. R. Price—both faith- ful members of the church and Sabbath-school, were leaving on the following morning for America. T eir young friends agreed to present them on their d parture with pocket ...