... THE AFFAUIS OF JAMES HUMBY. —This debtor was described as of Bathampton, Bath tbe Garth Colliery, Garth, Glamorgan also of Horse Fair, Bristol, colliery proprietor, &c.—At the London Bankruptcy Court, on Friday, a meeting was held before Mr Registrar Brougham for the public examination of John Humby, whom a receiving order was made in May last upon a creditors' petition. Tho bankrupt, who was ...

... THE SOUTH WALES SCHOOL FOR GTFLS, IiIERFIELD HALL, will i-e-opln on Thursday, 17th r at., at 1 p.m. ...

... DUNVILL]ES,OLD IRISH WHISKY IS recommended.; by the medical oro'ession ill preference to Trench Brandy. They hold the Iaij&esi; stock oiWhiaky in the world. Supplied in casks ...

... | WELL DONE, MKRTHYR AND ABERDARE FARMS COMMITTEE, Tun joint fartm committer of Merthyr and Aberdaro may be congratulated upen the happy issue of their labours last year. They hav^ made substantial profits, and have divided £ 1,100 substantial profits, and have divided £ 1,100 between the two local boards. It was not always so. Not only have the operations of the past year been successful, ...

... A CONTRADICTION. TO THK KDITOR. Sirt,-Kiiidly allow me a small space in you most valuable paper to contradict the false rumour which now exists at Brynbyfryd, viz., that John Daviss, who met with an accident on Friday, the 22nd ult., near the Pentre Colliery, was refused admission into my house. This I deny, and have witnesses to prove it. He only cslled for some spirits outside on his way to ...

... An inquest on the body of John Fletcher, aged 50, a well-known Soutbport gentleman, who it is suspected was drugged and r.obbed in a cab in Manchester, and who expiied in tbe vehicle while being conveyed unconscious to the infirmary, was opened yesterday. It was adjourned till Monday afternoon, the city analyst's report on the contents of the deceased's stomach not being ready. It has been ...

... GRATIFYING.—Master Alfred Evans, aged 12, son of the late Rev T. Penry Evans, Pontardulais, was elected last Tuesday on the foundation of the Congregational School for the Education of Sons of Ministers, Caterham, Surrey, at the head of the poll. The appeal senr. to subscribers on the boy's behalf secured him 1.355 votes. Mr Alfred vi66 {I-iAmpteau) and Mrs Houty iiiobard were instrumental in ...

... ROBBED AT A PCBLIC-KOUSE—At Merthyr poJ¡etcdlut, 0'1 Monday—before Mr North and Mr Smyth—John Da vies was charged with stealing a shirt belonging to Martin Roon-y, labourer, 19, Pond-street, Dowlais. O 1 tho 19.,h inst the prisoner was drinking iu the Cartnartueu Arms, Dowlais. with prosecutor and other men. i Piosecutor went out to the back, and when he returned, the shirt, which he had left ...

... [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS FROM LLOYD'S AGEXTS. I The steamer Sapphire, previously reported aground at Saltholm, has been assisted off and towed into Copenhagen. The Plata, from Cardiff for Buenos Ayres, previonsly reported in Gijon Biy leaky, is expected to become a total wreck. The Giovanni A, for Buenos Ayres, previously reported aground on Marquesas Reef, has been takeu to Key West by wreckers The ...

... [BY A WELSH MEMBER. 1 Last week every subject, whetherlof Imperial or of locaLinterest, was cast into the shade by the great double event of the gigantic collapse of the Times case and the powerful indictment preferred by the Opposition against the Balfourian policy in Ireland. Never has any Government received such damaging cannonades during question time and in debate in the course of one ...

... ONE POUND BANK NOTES. We learn that Mr Goschen has under con- sideration a proposal for an issue of one pound bank-notes, this being in addition to the provision for which the right hon. gentleman 'intends to ask Parliament to enable him to carry out his scheme for the restoration of the gold coinage. ...

... THE EXPENSES OF THE SLIDING SCALE. TO THE KDITOB. SIK,—How is thfj money that is stopped from the workmen towards the expenses of tho sliding scale spent ? We are given to understand there are 64,000 workmen whose wages are ruled by the scale, and th3 owners make a levy at least three a year of 6 i per man and yet we are now told they are JB50 in arrear from the last audit, »na it is proposed ...