... LONDON PROVISION, MONDAY.—The arrivals last week from Ireland were 351 firkins Butter and 2,740 bales Bacon, and from foreign ports 22,276 packages Butter and 826 bales Bacon. In the Irish Butter market there was no change to notice during the week. Foreign met a steady sale with little change in value, excepting in Dutch, which declined to 132s. to 134s. The Bacon market ruled steady; a fair ...

... The following letter has appeared in the Oswestry Advertizer. SIR,- In your last issue you referred to a paragraph in the North Wales Chronicle, in which the writer claimed that eight Portmadoc volunteers had, in their class-firing, made a greater score than an equal number of Oswestry volunteers had made, at the same ranges, in their first match with the Newtown corps the respective figures ...

... We are requested to publish the following correspondence which has taken place with reference to this institution 4, Baker-street, Aberystwyth. DEAR SIR,—In common with many others I have been surprised that the University College for Wales does not progress with greater rapidity. The reasons given for this do not appear to me entirely satisfactory, as I believe that Wales both wants the ...

... Paris, April 12 th. Yesterday numerous seditious placards were posted in various quarters of Paris. Men in blouses were stationed before them who declared that they should not be torn down, nevertheless they were all removed by the police, and thirty individuals who attempted to oppose the officials were arrested. The Ministerial crisis continues, but efforts are being made to retain Count ...

... TOWYN AND ABERDOVEY LOCAL BOARD, THURSDAY. — Present: Messrs W. Parry, in the chair, Owen Daniel, W. W. Jones, Towyn, Wm. Williams, David Lloyd, William Jones, Aberdovey Mr Thomas Edwards, clerk; Dr Pugh, medical officer; David Davies, collector; and P.C. Metcalfe, inspector of nuisances. TOWYN DISTRICT GAS RATE. The CLERK applied to have the seal of the Board at- tached to a district gas rate ...

... PETTY SESSIONS, TBBSDAY.— Before R. IVL Richards, Esq., Lewis Williams, Esq., and CoL Buiiury, C.B. Drunkenness. -Gr'iffiih, Thomas was summonea by P.C. Ashton for being drunk and riotous in Queen-Square at nine o'clock on the morning of Feb. 22nd. The defendant was making a great row, and threatened to kick the officer. Inspector Owen Jones- said that the defendant when brought to the lock ...

... Mrs Howard, who was committed on Monday for con tempt and declining to be sworn in the Wicklow Peera £ | case was, yesterday brought privately before the Lor*? Chancellor, admonished, and discharged without payme» of fees. Lord Napier of Magdala was under examination befo^f the Abyssinian Committee the whole of Tuesday, and h^* not concluded his evidence until after four o'clock, wh^ Mr ...

... WATCH NIGHT.-On the last night of the old year the annual services where held at the Wesleyan Chapel; the Rev. J. Richards presiding. The members of the Talsarnau and Zoar choirs kindly gave their services, and, under the conductorship of Mr Edmund Roberts, they sang a number of selections from Mozart and Handel in a manner which reflected much credit upon them. Miss Evans, the Hotel, ...

... SIR, Thrms such as the dangerous classes, the masses, the great unwashed, the mobocracy, the working classes, the labouring population, are pretty well understood, but no little confusion and ambiguity have arisen in discussions about working men, by neglect- ing to recognize grades among them. I do not mean grades in wages, knowledge, or ability, but in birth and training, both of ...

... RENT AUDIT.—The rent audit for the Nannau estate took place on Tuesday last, at the Lion Hotel, Dolgelley, and the tenants were treated, as usual, to a good dinner by their landlord. CALVINISTIC METHODISTS.—The monthly meeting of this body, in the western division of the county, was held at Salem Chapel, in this town, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 5th and 6th inst. Being the annual meeting, it ...

... OPENING OF THE NEW BARMOUTH HOTEL.-On Wed- nesday week a large party, wall-wishers and friends of Mr Reese, dined together at this hotel to celebrate the open- ing. The chair was ably filled by Griffith Jones Williams, Esq.; and A. T. Atkinson, Esq., of Hawthorn, Middle- sex, discharged with efficiency the duties pertaining to the vice-chair. The meat and wines were of a superior quality, and ...

... In moving the second reading of the Trades Unions Bill in the House of Commons, Mr T. Hughes enterel at clDsidelahle length find in great detail into the whole his'orv of tho question —tke Sheffield outrages, the investigations of the Royal Com- mission to which they gave rise, and the rival proposals which had been made for settling the relations between masters and workmen. His own measure ...