... THE NEW SLIDING SCALE. MEETING OF STEAM-COAL DELEGATES. ADDRESS OF MR W. ABRAHAM. HOW THE SCALE CAME TO BE ADOPTED. THE ANSWER TO THE VOTE OF CENSURE. VIEWS OF THE HOUSE-COAL COLLIERS. [BY OUR SPECIAL REPORTERS.] It is a matter of common notoriety that the action of the steam-coal delegates in signing the new sliding-scale in the absence of the represen- tatives of the house-coal men has ...

... CARDIFF. CATHEDRAL.—Third Sunday after Trinity. Eight o'clock, Holy Communion 11, bervice, ciiiuits. Prcitcher, Rev. E. Hawkins- M.A., canon in residence. 3.30, Service, Cooke m C Anthem, Lead, kindly light (Stainer). Preacner, Very Rev. the Dean. There will be offertories at the services for the Xilandaff Diocesan Church Extension Society.—E. A. Succentor. GARIBALDI.—An advertisement in ...

... Reports of another massacre have just been re- ceived from the South Sea, but in this case the treacherous natives not only murdered all of the crew but also set fire to the vessel, which was totally destroyed. The particulars of the affair were furnished by the captain of the vessel, who, together with the second mate, arrived Queensland, in the schooner Isabella. The vessel destroyed was ...

... The board of arbitration for the North of Eng- land manufactured iron trade met at Darlington on Monday, in connection with the crisis involv- ing the question of continuing the board. A vota had been taken at twenty ironworks, with the re- sult that at eleven works a majority appeared against, whilst nine works favoured the continu- ance of the board. The vote was considered dis- appointing, ...

... LATEST HOME TELEGRAMS. Two militiamen named Hoilingworth and Watts were drowned while bathing in the river Trent, at Barrow, 0:1 Wednesday. An American four-oar crcw arrived at Queens- town, on Wednesday, from Michigan, with a view to competing in English regattas. At a full meeting of the Devizes Liberal Asso- ciation Committee, on Tuesday evening, William Saunders, of Streatham, was unani- ...

... NEW YORK, Saturday.—It is reported that the town of jhnmettsburg in Iowa has been destroyed by a cyclone, and that 100 lives were lost. ...

... ITHE REPRESENTATION OF TIIE PE.MBROKE BOROUGHS. CONSERVATIVE MEETING AT e -- res 1o PPEMBRL OEr .l cle PEMBROKE, THURSDAY NIGHT. fot o Mr. y Harben, the candidate selected by Va td the Pembroke Dock Conservative Association to co contest the representation of the Pembroke wi d Boroughs at the next election, addressed a nume- of is it rously attended meeting of electors at the un Assembly-rooms ...

... .ney CARDIFF. be gln 2 on R~e-UONLT ST. JOWrs.-O Monday a re-un1ion tairl& ~ nof the present and p&si communicant took plac.I'- at the Parish (hu robof St. John's, In themnorm: g LAi there was is communion service, whidh was au nsl acre- ?? by 25 persons; and ivn the evening tir Lowe'w in of wa., service in Which a. very full congre1,ation Lw got participated. On the latter occasion the vicar, ...

... Shortly before fi ve o'clock on Sunday evening, Mr Henry Houghton, landlord of the Beau- fort Arms, Chelsea, hired a boat, and went sailing down the river in company with a waterman named Frampton. All went well until off Pimlico pier, when the steam- boat Citizen C, dso going down the river, ran them down, upsetting the boat, and throwing the occupants into the water. Mr Houghton immediately ...

... PHILANTHROPIC ORDER.—The quarterlv meet- ing of the Caerphilly District of the Merthyr Unity was held on Saturday last fit the Rose of the Valley Lodge-room, at Cross Inn. All the delegates of the district were present. After transacting the business and auditing the ac- counts, the delegates sat down to a capital din- ner, which was highly creditable to Mr and Mrs Rees, the host and hostess. ...

... SUPERSTITION IN HAMP- SHIRE. At Bournemouth, on Saturday, a wom-tn nnmed Rhoda Burton, was charged under the Vagrancy Act with fortune-telling. The prisoner hawked lace and ed rriugs, and called at a house where the prosecutrix, Dinah Wilcox, was domestic servant, remarking to her that she appeared to be un- happy.. She added that it was about a young mail, ami that she could bring his love ...

... FENIANISnl IN ENG- LAND. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SURPRISE. Colonel Majendie, R.E., her Majesty's in- spector of explosives, accompanied by Mr Hinde, superintendent of the Woolwich Dockyard Police, on Wednesday examined the ammunition seized at Clcrkenwell, in the Home Office magazine. It is found to consist of about 10,000 rounds of small arm cartridges, of which about a thousand are for saloon ...