... THE NEW SLIDING SCALE, MEETING OF ANTHRACITE COLLIERS. THE SCALE EXPLAINED AND DEFENDED. The monthly meeting of the anthracite colliery district was held on Saturday, at the Tregib Arms, Brynamman. The collieries from Trim- saran to Yst-radfawr were represented, and Mr W. Abraham, miners' agent, was also present. One of the workmen presided, and opened the meeting with a. brief speech, ...

... THROUGHOUT Wales, and far beyond its li:nits, the announcement made this morning in our columns of the death of the gifhcd Congregational Minister, the Rev. THoAlAS JoNEs, of Swansea, will create profound regret. It is not necessary for Utj to attempt any description of the marvellous genius which he con- aecrn.ted for many years almost exclusively to the work of the pulpit. There must be ...

... WAGES IN rfHE ANTHRACITE COAL DISTRICT. [BY OUR SPECIAL COHRESPOXJ)EXT.j Some alarm and apprehension is caused, parti- cularly in the upper part of this district, by the attitude assumed between the coal owners at some of the largest collieries in the vicinity and their workmen. It is noted that tho owners of the Gwaun-cae-gurwen and Garnant Collieries had nmde an agreement with their workmen ...

... THE SEIZURE OF ARMS IN LONDON. The Press Association is informed that several experts from the Tower, sent. by tho Government, were engaged on Tuesday in examining the arms which were seized by 1 nspector Peel in Ryder-crescent, Clerkenwell, on Saturday morning. The examination has not yet been com- pleted, and will in all likelihood occupy another day, and until it is finished no official ...

... A LIVERPOOL MYSTERY. In connection with the great seizure of Fenian and in Clerkonwell on Saturday morning, some details of an affair which the police of Presoot, near Liverpool, have for some time past been endeavouring to investigate, and which go 's to supply additional evidence of the sys- tematic organisation nhd extensiveramilications of Fenianism in England, will duubtless be read with ...

... EXHIBITS. Messrs Peacock and Buchan, stand 97, shed 15, show the protective and anti-fouling comY)osition. It is to the bottoms of iron ship, zinc sheathings, and aJl kinds of iron work or gal- vanised iron that may in any manner be exposed to the action of saltwater. It is n')w in exten;;Îve use by the British and many foreign Admiralties, and with most of the steam-ship companies in the ...

... DOWLA1S. J\i;:nic.vr. APPOIXTMKXT.— Mr John li.an-i, L.B.C.P., of Duwhiis, has be m an coated surgeon under the Ebbw A a! ]r ciuork- Cnu. pany, and will commence his ne v dr.lie- up en tn« 24th dune. The removal of .Mr Evae.s ,s ie.oeli regretted, as during the last ten year. linit he h u betn ill Dowbi hc has bcen gem rail,, re-peele. ...

... THE SALVATION ARMY AT THEOKKY FA 111. THE SHOWMEN VJ::1öUS THE ARMY. DISGRACEFUL SCENES. TREOKKY, Sunday Afternoon.—Never in con- nection with any religious gatherings in the Rhondda Valley has there been witnessed such a scene of disgraceful rioting and confusion as that which took l'LtCe this afternoon near the fair ground, Treorky. To-morrow (Monday) is the day on which the great annual ...

... SPECIAL ARTICLE. THE CHINESE IN AMERICA. [EY THE AUTHOR OF AN ENGINKKR'S HOLIDAY.] The public voice of America, and particularly of Western America, has clamoured so long and so loudly for the exclusion of the yellow race from the gold diggings, harvest fields, and infant manu- facturing industries of California, that English- men who are unacquainted with the Chinese immigrant may well ...

... LONDON LETTER. [SPECIALLY wntr,] [ny OUR GALLERY LOXDOX, TUESDAY NWTIT. The House of Commons adjourned at a quarter to three this morning, having (le- voted something like three hours to the im- portant business of discussing the navy esti- mates of the year, a space of time a little less than that appropriated by Mr Biggar for discussing the relations of Lord with Lis tenants. The proceeding ...

... THE CRISIS IN EGYPT. (RETJTER'R TF.LF.anAM.S.) ALKXAN'DI'.IA, Tuesday.—Mr Calvert, Vice- Consul, has resigned. An official in the consular office has advised the English residents who desire to remain here to take up their quarters at the Eastern Telegraph Office. The Ministers, except iiaghib and Arabi Pashas, proceeded to Cairo last night. MALTA, Tuesday. —Thirteen hundred more re fugees ...

... MANIFESTO TO THE HOUSE- COAL COLLIERS. THE NEW SLIDING-SCALE. TO THE HOUSE-COAL WORKMEN OF SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE. Fellow Workmen,—I now wish to say a few words with reference to some of the remarks made by Mr Abraham at the delegate meeting at Aber- dare concerning the new sliding scale. I take the points as they have appeared in print. First, Mr Abraham states that after the meeting ...