... R CHURCH X MERTHYR. J J'HK .L\. UPON THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. aual church parade of the Merthyr de. cent rifle volunteers took place on Sunday Jrning, the men falling in at the drill-hall, and Beaded by the band, marching to St David's church. The muster consisted of about 200, the officers present being Captain and Commandant Lewis, Dr Ward, Captains White and Davies, Lieutenants T. Evans, J. O. ...

... MERTHYR. THE PROPOSED FREE LIBRARY.—On Friday evening, a meeting of gentlemen in favour of founding a free library was held at the Aber- morlais Lecture-hall, for the purpose of formulat- ing a programme to be presented before the public meeting, which will be held to decide the question of a free library on the 24th inst. Mr J. Plews, president of the chamber of trade, was voted to the chair. ...

... SIR H. IIUSSEY VIVIAN, BART. The honour conferred upon the junior member for the county of GJamorgan is one about the mcrit of we may say with all therewi!Ibenodispute. NorwiIIitbeiuGIa- morgan only that the now baronet, Sir H. Husst'y who has made popular for his lionie, will be w::rm!y congratulated. It is net too much to nay that Welshmen are proud of Sir Hussey Vivian, and that they we.e ...

... TYSSUL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—As one of the successful candidates at the Bristol Clerical Edu- cational Society Examination held on the 16th of last month, we are glad to find the name of Mr D. rr. Jones, Llandyfynog, who has obtained J650 a year for two years also Mr Griffith Thomas, the son of Mr Thomas, Maeslan, Llanarth,has success- fully passed the medical preliminary examination, held at ...

... INFTRMART AND DISPENSARY.—The number of patients who attended at the dispensary during the week ending the 15th April was 425 number visited at their own homes, 64 number of patients in the infirmary during the week, 12.- R. H. Dowse, M.D., house surgeon. Southern District.—Number of patients during the week ending April 15th, 59; number of visits paid during the week, 132.—R. Cooke, visiting ...

... THE NEW CODE AND RURAL SCHOOLS. Major Crugie, secretary to the Central Cham- ber of Agriculture, on Monday received a commu- niC ...

... MR PARNELL'S MOVEMENTS. THE movements of Mr PARNELL since his liberation trom Kilmainham Gaol were very minutely chronicled, as far as the observer could track his footsteps, but there would seem to have been at some point a mys- terious hitch. The scent was lost, the cor- respondents of the daily press had no news to forward, and conjecture held a respectful silence. The facts which we know ...

... jrer|l^l'^|,TrrA> Thursday.—The Bank of Bengal has froivi's minimum rate of interest and discount 9 per cent. eft N'J:ONE, Thursday.-The Duke of Albany To lere this morniug for Paris. 4b(lu Thursday.—The strike among ship a,t f01, r as terminated, the men returnig to work ^^Pvite'61 W'es' PenclinK the settlement of the ...

... THE 24TH REGIMENT AND THE ZULU WAR. SERMON BY THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S. Having regard to the services of the 24th (Brecon) Regiment in the Zulu campaign, it was proposed to erect A memorial to caiTy down to posterity the names of the gallant men who fell during the determined struggle. After some con- sideration it was decided to put up a stained glass window at Brecon, and in our opinion no ...

... 00 OFFICERS AND MEN ON BOARD. furl'6 ^>i'93s Association'' Plymouth corres- H,e^ telegraphs that much oxcitement prevails e tUree towns at the abserce of intelligence of lOf her ^l^jesty's ship Thalia, at Cape- She was bst heard of Madeira on l?th, and had on board 600 officers and witii Admiral Noel Salmon. ...

... The are engaged in tracing the parties f tea?3 w'th the brutal murder and mutilation °rd) n e child, which was discovered at Dept- the line of the South Eastern Railway, P^sed to have been thrown out of a passing rCfil ;7'en found it was tied up in a papgr i ^fte -le bead of the infant had been smashed Sj f, K lt had been suffocated by a cotton stock- a ,round the neck. There had, no doubt, f ...

... LOCAL WILL CASE. In the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice, on Friday, the Right Hon. President Sir James Hannen had before him the local suit of Davies v. Davies (Davies and others cited),which had reference to the testamentary dispositions of the late John Davies, a farmer, at Dinas, in Pembrokeshire, who died 011 the 23rd March, 1881, leaving a will bearing date 19th November, ...