... -W2EMH PARLIAMENTARY NOTES. I maFOX Og LOBBY coaassopiml a There can be nQ doubt that during the session a which has just opened many questions of distiae' L tively Welsh interest will be discussed. Whether . these disowssions willabar fruit, whether they will 0 end in acts, or whether they will be productive a merely of words, are questions which time only can solve. It would be folly at this ...

... FORECAST OF 'IHE GOVERNMENT PILOTAGE BILL. a I- d The Bristol Zfmes has been favoured with a fore- It h cast of Mr. Chamberlain's proposed Bill dealing e *t with pilotage on the British coast. The probable r h amount required for the purchase of the present f. boats and compensation to the older pilots is set II b down at £3,000,000. The future action in this a direction is, we hear, of the ...

... The report which the direetors of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Company will present to the proprietors at the third half-yearly meeting on Monday, the 18th inst., states that Very con- siderable progress has been made with the works between Potrhvdyvfen and Cymmer during the past six months 'the whole of the permanent way materials for re-laying the Cwmavon Railway ,have been ...

... SOME SVNDAY CUSTOMS IN MUNIO, |I I .I- I(ET A CaAnrDr RESsrnxSI OF THEi CITY.) ?? at the many, branches of-the Much agitated& ~jquestion of the ob~servance of Sunday has recently C 2!f beeir discuissed bvthe Munich Chaimber dt Corn- old a- marce. A prdpesdl wad' introduced to mike the f is closing of shops during the afternoon Fours of In Snasadfsials compulsory. Hithierto the bee' leia has ...

... ?? 01* -1 *o I Af fRIDtAYFitBR , it 1. TWIDAl~Y, F~EBBUAI-q2.e, 1884. No news changing the position of affairs in the Soudan lhad been received up to the time of our going to press. It is estimated that 300 persons have been killed and that 5,000 houses have been destroyed by a terrific cyclone which swept over the Southern States of Arneri& on Tuesday and Wednesday. By ai colliery explosion ...

... THE FLEUSS LIFSAVING. I APPARATUS . I I - or BY MABON. ' - oIM COLe 2 Paxar ?sosarns OF Monxowrnsr-rn sn sAh9 SdUrT WArS GENERALLY, AND THOSE OF THB 1 ?m RHONDDA VLLEr 2sprcQLtLY. I Id Gentlemen,-In pursuance of a resolution passed 3 e at'.the Rhondda steam coal miners' monthly meet- of ing, where about 12,000 of the miners and other I Id colliery workmen of the Rhondda and Ogmore 7 n Valleys ...

... THE LII-NG OF. LLANTRISANT. ?? - = Morjen wiftgst-t is announced that the O appoirrtment to'rbe living of Llantrisant, vacated . hiby the hlrmented death of. Canon Jones, has been hI tfered to- the' Revz.'Thomnas Wolselv Lewis-M.A., F second master of Chetenhibm Coilege.. It has not y transpired whether.'thb rev.'gentlenn lhas accepted it. .Tlie XAv:.T. wqlsilg Lewis, IM A., Was educated ?? ?? ...

... I |FnOM OUR OWKT cosrRTUPONfINT5s,13 Your readers are of course at this time victims to the general curiosity as to the pro- bable contents of the Queen's Speech. To some extent I am in a position to satisfy that laud- ablespirit of patriotic inquisitiveness, as far as it relates to one or two important points. Amongst the numerous Bills promised to be introduced the leading place will be ...

... , ACCEPTANCE OF'THE CHILTERNI HUNDRIEDS. Mr. Bradlaugh Ils made ties following statoment to a, representative of the Prese Association':-In tho House last night it was made a charge that there wee, to use the words, of one mnember, la plant, and to uses the words of another, that there wee a conspiracy between myself aed thle Government ase to whet should happen. There is nlot a word of ...

... I we of St cry and little wooL-A new born lamb. PThe poores borrower can always return thanks. ?? dictionar y is not as big as the Post Office, but it r bansa more letters to the square Inch. , auctioneer does as he is bid, a postman as he is reid. If youa want a thing well done, do it yourself; therefore hys laugh at your own jokes. ,Tho parting gives me pain,' as the man said when hle i a ...

... SERIOUS EPIDEMIC OF 'MEASLES-Over 1,000 children are now affected with measles at Macclsfleld. All tho schools are closed. TEim. CessNsens AMBASSADOR. - Tle Matrquis Tseng, Chinese Amhasgador, intends to mlake a prolonged stay il Folkestone, having token a house for twelvo months. HEAVY DAMAGcES A.GlNST A RZAILWVAY COMPAN-Y.- In the Queon'B Bench, yesterday, in tho case of Major. General ...

... MR. BRIGHT ON THE LAND SYSTEt Mr. rope Hume, of Torquay, has received letter from Mr. Bright -132, Piccadilly. Dear sir, The time is here when our land revised, some of them abolished. The laes taro will vanish, and entails and settlement rid of. or will be so far limited as to be depl pernicious influence on public welfare. I opinion has so far advanced oa these question ment will consent to ...