... FLEASANT WORDS never come .mis. To the poor they give cheer to the sorrowful, comfort to the happy, greater happiness. Perhaps we are always care- ful to speak kindly to the poor, the sick, the aged; but are we always as ready to give a pleasant word to the rich, the gay, the apparently happy? Do we not sometimes forget that there are diseases of the soul; that there is a hunger other than ...

... STATE OF ZJLULAND. A correspondent in Northern Zululand, under date Dccembc-r 29, sends the Durban representative of the Times disquieting accounts of the state of things there. The general opinion in the country is that the people are sleeping (.n a volcano. There is jnifgovernraent everywhere, from the chiefs. to the smallest captains. Thne is no hand to restrain them I ;and there is no ...

... NEWSf S UMMARtYJ-1 --o . -l The newv ?? an1d pier at M:ilford flaven were formrallyv openedZ yesterday b y Mr . W. n~avies, IVP~.. wvho deliveared a short adl- 3L dress. In the eveninlg a banquet was given by the contractors. Great excitemxent ha3 been caused through- I out France. an~d l'ar is is saidi to be in a panic, tot owtingr to the rejeeition of the &v'etin cie Usf'e. Du It is ...

... NORTH OF ENGLAND IRON AND COAL TRADES. MIDDLESBOROUGH, Thursday.—As reported at Tuesday's market, the pig-iron trade shows this week considerable slackness compared with the activity and nrmness displayed last week at the quarterly meeting. There was a relapse from the quarterly meeting until Tuesday of 9d to Is per ton. This was almost entirely owing to the con- siderable influence, it may be ...

... HIS RESIGNATION REQUIRED. At the Narberth Board of Guardians, on Mon- day there was a full attendance of guardians, presided over by the Rev. W. D. Phillips.—After the usual preliminary business, tho Chairman said they had met in consequence of a notice given that day month by Mr John Liewellin, of Blether- etone, that at this meeting Mr V. B. W. l. Jones, medical officer of health, be asked ...

... THE SINGULAR FRENCH WILL SUIT. TLe case of 1\1, and Afada ne Rivoiro c me on for hearing before the Civil Tribunal of on Saturday. The husband aud wife perished on the 12th ot June in a boat:ng accident upon the Rhone. ihe point for decision is, wliich of the two was the survivor, and the importance of de- ciding it lies in the fact that a fortune of some seventy-five thousand pounds sterling ...

... THE POLITICAL WISDOM OF WTOODSTOCK: WHEN the Conservatives of Woodstock in public meeting duly assembled, under the presidency of Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, declare that HER MAJESTY'S Government have hitherto failed by their measures in re- storing law and order in Ireland, they amuse themselves with a mere farrago of historical platitude, and enlighten nobody. The pro- position is one on which ...

... the '^■8sociation is informed that the t' about to be published by t ^el is Urcat Britain and Rome of England to hold diplo- the Sovereign Pontiff? ...

... At Wandsworth policecfJurt, on .[onday, -Ta: Charles Gurney, who was described as a soUcitor, residing in Temperley.na,J, Baiham, was charged with being-drunk and assaulting P.O. Hayes, 179 V,whi]e in the execution of his duty. -The evidence showed that on Saturday evening the constable was called to the Balham Hotel to eject the pá,(lner from the private bar. The prisoner struck him on the ...

... BOROUGH POLICE.—At Newport Town-hall, on Wednesday—before Messrs R. F. Woollett and E. J. Grice—Daniel Rees, second engineer on the steamship Rhiwabon, was fined 10s for illegally landing lglb. of cigars and 10 ounces of tobacco, on the previous Thursday.—Amelia Powell, for assaulting Matilda Edwards in South Market- street, on Sunday night, was fined 10s.—James Bushell, a seaman, was charged ...

... RHYMNEY. THE CALVINISTJC METHODISTS AND MR D. DAVIES, M.P.—Mr William Griffiths, Blackwood, visited Brynhyfryd Church, on Thursday hist, as a. deputation from the monthly meeting, and stated the claims of the funds on the churches. The friends unanimously resolved to co-operate, and the deputation was given to understand tliat the church at Brynhyfryd would most likely collect £ 30 towards the ...

... | PRESENTATION OF SCIENCE ANUS | IART PRIZES AT CAR.DIFF. -- navies, $ Ryan H the distribution of prizes awarded by the Frederic] Science-and Art Department, and the local corn-f Howeils, ason, mines, to the students of the Cardiff Schools, for Alisen E ? the sees its of rooms, ion 1880-81, took place at the Assembly- E. Robe -, the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Thursday evening. David iii adds There ...