... The list of readers and speakers, as well as of sub- jects to be'discussed, at the coming Church Congress to be held at Swansea, under the presidency of the Bishop of St. David's, presents several remarkable features of interest, well worthy of notice. We miss, 10 the first instance, the names of several eminent Churchmen, who .have hitherto contributed no incon- siderable share of interest ...

... AFTEE-DIXNJJR SPEECHES.—The fashion of after. dinner speechifying is simply unendurable. It poisons every festal feeling in the minds of the unhappy vic- tims whose names are down for the toasts. The amount of suffering which this wretched English habit bag caused can never be known but no man who has been a guest at public dinners but is abl& to guess at its extent. Why should we go on ...

... By a fall of roof at the White Farm Colliery, Knutton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, on Monday, a collier, named John Lawrence, was fearfully crushed, and died almost immediately. His fellow-workman was also seriously injured, and is now under treatment. The colliery has been free from accidents for some time. ...

... Surgeon Ambroso Hamilton Kelly, who went to Cabul as medical officer to the Embassy, was the well-known doctor of the Guides. He was appointed an assistant surgeon in the Bengal Medical Department in October, 1869, and had seen considerable service in India. He was with the 22nd Punjaub Native Infantry throughout the Looshai Expedition from November, 1871, to March, 1872, and was in medical ...

... The news from all the columns represents the Wnotm as to advance to avense the massacre. ano; tne xorwara movements win ao much to restore the health and spirits even of those who have been most weakened by illness. ...

... FORMATION OR-' A-SCHOOL S^ARD.-—The-parishioners of Machen in vestry assembled, have passed a resolu. tion affirming the desirableness of forming-a School Board. WORKMEN'S OUTINGS. — The men engaged at Machen Iron and Tin-plate Works and the employes in the locomotive and carriage- departments of-the Brecon and Mertbyr Railway Company's Maohen shops have had their annual outings. The former ...

... THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAR. BRITISH INTERESTS JEOPARDISED. Writing from Tocapilla, Chili, August 21, an English correspondent of the Western Morning Jfews states that the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilian forces having given orders to the officers in charge at Tocapilla that in the event of the re- currence of the destruction of launches by the Peruvians resistance was to be made, English ...

... U S K. The will (dated July 5, 1879) with two codicils (dated 5 and 13, in the same year) of Mr. John Jeffe- ries Stone, J. P., late of Scyborwen, in the parish of Llantrissent, Monmouthshire, of Ashton Villa, Wick- hamrroad, Deptford, and of No. 16, George-street, Mansion House, who died on the 6th ult., was proved on the 4th .instant, by Edward Mulready Stone, the son, and Frederick William ...

... [Magistrates: T. GRATREX, Esq. (in the chair); T. CORDES, Esq., M.P., Lieut.-Colonel HEYWORTH, and R. W. HAMILTON, Esq.] REMOVING GOODS.—George Kirkham was summoned for fraudulently removing his goods, to avoid a dis- tress for rent.-William Smith said he let a house to defendant at Malpas, and on the 19th of August he was indebted to witness in the sum of £3 3s. Wit- ness gave him a month's ...

... Capt. Carey, at his interview with Sir Charles Ellice and Major-General Hawley on Saturday, did not demand the copy of the proceedings of the court martial. Under the new Army Discipline and Regulation Act every person so tried is en- titled to a copy of such proceedings. Capt. Carey, however, was presented with a copy of the trial proceedings. ...

... THE mnmnnutgsgirc NEWPORT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1879. MR- GLADSTONE'S SPEECH AT CHESTER. FROM what has already occurred since the pro- rogation of Parliament, there is reason for believing that the quietude of the present recess will be continually disturbed by prepa- rations for the next general election, which many appear to think will be upon us in a few months, but about which there must ...

... The love of wandering which (says the Pall Mall Gazette) is one of the motives which induce young men to take up a tramp's life is too near akin to ^v4-' « -1 i —1-i.l. 1 uw u .1 for England to make it an object of severe con- demnation. But, like other tastes which lie on the borderland between vice and virtue, it is only innocent when gratified at the possessor's own ex- pense. A tramp who ...