... The National Colleges and the Univer- sities. Mr Henry W. Hughes, ot Porth, in replying to Mr J. Yout-g Evans, of Oxford, writes:— In education, as iu government, the great WIIt. of tho people of the day is not centralisation, but decentralisation. Educa- tion should te spread, not huiidlad up into a couple of out-oi-tho-way corners to fatten the favoured few, leaving tne nation outside ...

... The Queen's Speech. The fifth session of the 12sb Parliament of the Queen, and of the 24-th Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was opened by Royal Conamissiou on Tuesday. Long before the hour appointed for the opening ceremony, visitors began to taka their places in the House of Lords, and the attendance of ladies was unprecedentedly numerous, more than 100 being ...

... CARDIFF TRAMWAY MEN. Another Sunday Meeting. pA goneral meeting of tho A*sociation of tba Tramwiiy employs was held ati tbe Washington Hotel, Cardiff, on Sunday afternoon. Mr H. Brown presided. The CHAIRMAN stated that their case bad been submitted to arbitration, and they had (against overwhelming evidence) lost. He could not understand the decision arrived at, for the arbitrator led them to ...

... Presentation to the Chairman of the Committee, At the Castle Hotel, Brecon, at a compli- mentary bauquet on Tuesday evening, the Mayor of Brecon (Colonel John Morgan, D L.) on behalf of the subscribers, preseuted the chairman of the National E steddfod Committee (Dr J. Williams, F.R.C.S., ex and Deputy Mayor of Brecou), with a magnificently carved oak bardic chair and a handsome illuminated ...

... MRS Fussy: Dear, dear I wonder what makes the parrot swear so ? MB Fusast (who has his own views on the subject): I suppose he has picked up the remarks that the neighbours make about him ...

... Probably few people are aware that all the tnems bers of the Hungarian Parliament must addres- one another as h du (thou). This rule was pro-, mulgated by Francis Dáak, who looked upon it as the only way of abolishing caste prejudice in Hungary. ...

... A marriage under extraordinary circumstances was celebrated at Maryport on Tuesday between Auu Casiord Mandle, and William King, both deaf and dumb. The couple held the prayer-books while friends pointed out to them tho sentences in the marriage service as they were uttered by the officiating clergyman. They made the usual responses by the deaf and dumb alphabet. The church was crowded, and in ...

... Both Vessels :Sunk. Early on Wednesday a collision occurred off Lundy between the full-rigged ship Sovereign and the steamer Highgate, of Whitby. It was then stated that the steamer was sunk, the crew having barely time to take to the boats. Captain Lewer, with several of the crew, landed at Milford Haven but a boat with tbree firemen, the carpenter, third engineer, and one seaman was, up to ...

... RAILWAY MEN AND THEIR GRIEVANCES. Meeting at Cardiff. On Sunday afternoon the Colonial-hall at Cardiff waa well filled with members of the Cardiff, Penartb, Aberdare, Treberbert, and Ferndale branches of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the object of the meeting being to disenss tbe grievances under which rail- way men work, and appoint deputations to wait on the directors of the ...

... A meeting, under the auspices of the Dock, Wharf, and Riverside Labourers' Unioo,was held at the Drill-hall, Swansea, on Tuesday evening. There was a large attendance of working-men. At tbe time appointed a deputation of three workmen from Cardiff Docks entered the plat- form. One of tbe deputation took the chair, and in opening the proceedings dwelt at length upon the condition of dock ...

... LIABILITY OF TRUSTEES. Mr Peter Uavies's Case. On Tueday, in the Chancwry Division of the High Court of Justice—before Mr Justice Stirling —the summons in the liquidation of the Cardiff Savings' Bank, for the purpose of determining certain questions that had arisen as to the liability ot the managers and trustees, came on for hearing, Mr Buckley, Q.U., ana Mr Upjohn Jmscructed by Mr H. Cousins ...

... Tiwsecond rneetlng:f;he above society was held on Saturday evening, Mr E. R. Moxey, J.P., in the chair, This society, which is not entirely limited to teetotallers, but admits all the friends of temperance, HAS A membership already of 40, and it is proposed to provide concerts and other means of divoratoc 00 Saturday nights, when the temptations to drink are strongest. The Rev S. J. P. Dunman ...