... Mr. Gladstone left London on Saturday for Hawar- den for the Easter recess. The Football Association's Challenge Cup match was concluded on Saturday afternoon, at Kenning- ton Oral, the Old Carthusians beating the Old Etonians by three goals to one. General Garfield's intimate friends say that his possessions are very small—so small, indeed, that if everything he possesses were sold, the total ...

... TO-DAY the MERTHYR TELEGRAPH pays its last visit to its numerous friends. For a period of twenty-six years it has supplied a large circle of readers with the local and general news of the week. Journalism is conducted now under very different circumstances from those with which this paper had to contend in its early days. To many persons the year 1855 may seem a comparatively recent date, but ...

... A TERRIBLE VOYAGE. The public is periodically horrified by revelations of the misery endured by emigrants on English pas- senger ships; but, to judge from the declarations which have lately been published by steerage pas- sengers on steamers sailing from Havre and Antwerp, the worst English passenger ship is a paradise com- pared with some of the foreign steamers. The Swit- zerland, for ...

... At a weekly meeting of the Board on Saturday, Mr R. H. Rhys presided there being also present Messra T. Williams, C. E. Matthews, J. Williams, Owen Harris, T. Davies, D. Davies (Aberdare), B. Kirkhouse, D. H. Lewis, J. W. James, R. T. Griffiths, T. Edwards, J. Gabe, Rees Evans, D. Davies (Merthyr), T. Evans, L. D. Rees, and the Rev. Aaron Davies. COUNTY AND POLICE RATE. A precept for county ...

... The South Australian Ministry has resigned, and a new Ministry formed. The Indian Budget will probably be publisked before the end of the month, and it is generally ex- pected that it will show a large surplus. It is believed in Alexandria that Baron Ring is about to return to Eirvpt—a steP which will be a serious blow to the accord between England and Franoe in that country The glass ball ...

... MR. BRADLAUGH AND THE OATH. On Friday, in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, before Mr. Justice Watkin Williams and Mr. Justice Mathew, sitting in banco, judgment was delivered in the case of 44 Clarke v. Bradlaugh, M.P. The action was to recover penal- ties for the defendant having sat and voted in the House of Commons without having first taken the necessary oath ...

... The story of the blockade by the Chinese of the port of Macao is declared, in Berlin, to be entirely without foundation. Mr. Ashton Dilke, M.P., expresses a hope that before the next general election something would be lone to diminish the expanses of elections. Owing to the aspect of affairs in Afghanistan, a reseive division of Bombay troops is about to be mobilised and sent towards the ...

... A Board of Trade inquiry into the abandonment of the ship Northern Empire in the Atlantic on the 21st March was concluded at Liverpool on Saturday. The vessel was laden with cotton, and was on a voy- age from New Orleans to Liverpool, when she en- countered what the witnesses described as the most terrific hurricane they ever experienced at sea, this statement being corroborated by that of ...

... xit sJt notes tue Vonntry Gentleman says that the prospects 01 the coming season are capital, foxes plentiful, and the recent storms have cleared the fences of some of their superfluous foliage. Mr. Joseph Sebag has been elected vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Mr. Arthur Cohen, Q.C., the president, and Mr. Sebag, the vice-president, are both nephews of Sir Moses ...

... MERTHYR POST OFFICS. I I ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The London South and Uist of England, Seotiai.u Ireland, Hr.gl Gio'ster, Newport Hon.), Cardui, Poatypr.d South Wales, aud Foreign Parto o.SOmor SOUTH MAIL. From North ot Kngiaud, Scotland, Irelana, North Waifs, (ilo'ster, Hristol, and West oi iingiand, .NewporttMonj Pontypridd, Cardill, aud South Walqs 9,30 morn From Tredegar and Dowlais I0.3o moni ...

... DEATH. On the 1st inst., at 6, G lautatf-road, Troedyrhiw, Mrs Rtcliel Lewis, widow of Mr Thotnas Lewis, late ol Plymouth Works, in her 81st year. Much lamented. ...

... At the Hammersmith Police Court, on Saturday, he huiulady of a house in Earl's Court. Kensington, it'ended before Mr. Saunders to complain of her who kept a niimher of cats. On Friday the cAiier of the cats wiited upon Mr. Paget to complain her landlady refusing to allow her to go in to feed .rin. bite said she had an exhibition of cats worth •Jl oJ. The magistrate directed an officer to ...