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... The sudden conclusion of a treaty of peace is severely handled by the Times, which asserts that, after all, Austria will be the gainer by her defeats, and thinks Francis Joseph will yet learn to bless the happy day when his Imperial brother first determined to conquer his friendship. The writer pictures the laughter in- dulged in when the Emperors remember that there were dupes in the world ...
... At the last annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist body a scheme was adopted for the in- troduction of laymen into conference together with the ministers, the new mixed conference thus comprising 240 ministers and 240 laymen. Of the 240 laymen, 12 have seats in the conference by virtue of their official position as treasurers of eight connexional funds; eighteen were nominated by the last ...
... The Daily Telegraph of Monday'says :— Correspondence continues to pour in upon us in reference to the epidemic of hydrophobia. Nearly all the writers of the letters we receive are emphatic in endorsing the suggestions made in our leading article on the subject—an increased tax on dogs, and the rigid enforcement of severe police regulations. Several suburban residents point out that the number ...
... THE VALLEY OF THE LOM. The Correspondent of The Times with Suleiman Pasha in describing this valley says The valley of the Lom is all beautiful, so far as I have explored it, while here and there it offers real gems of landscape. If the high walls of rock on either hand describe the former dimensions of the stream, it must have been in pastages a mighty river and that once they were its ...
... Petty Sessions, Pontypool (alehouse licellses) Sat., July 21 Lectures (see advt.J—Providence Chapel, Sun Crane-st., County Court-Newport, Mon. t$- Tues; Cardiff, Wed. Sf Th ...
... LAND FOR RULE PRACTICE.—The following is the chief clause of the new act for facilitating the ac- quisition by rifle volunteer corps of grounds for rifle practice :— Any rifle volunteer corps may purchase or acquire by such grants as are hereinafter mentioned any land for rifle praotice, and for the erection of butts ana other accommodations for the use of the corps when practising with ...
... It is a singular thing that all the working & neers and stout-armed '^navigators who planned, and aut, and built up the Great Northern Railway, were compelled, before they commenced their labours, tø. wait for the oath of one man, who happened ta be William Jaaa«8 Robson, th» future forger. Theoots- puliory powers of a railway act cannot be put in fOrtJfI, nod the H t sod of a railway ...
... JANUARY FAIR.-This annual Fair, which was established last year, was held on Tuesday, but there was a very small supply of stock, and trade was dull throughout. There were comparatively few store cattle on offer, no doubt owing to the severity of the weather. Prices seem to be unal- tered. Beef firm; mutton has an upward ten- dency. Pigs are very dear; some sucklings were sold on Tuesday at ...
... On Sunday, the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, before deliver- ing the sermon at the morning service in the Metro- politan Tabernacle at Newington, offered up a special prayer beseeching Gjd to cause the Turks to be de- feated for the atrocities they had committed upon Christian women and children. He also prayed that they might soon be driven out of Europe and the Mahomedan power wiped away from off the ...
... TUESDAY—Before J. M. HERBERT, Esq., Judge. There was a good deal of business before the court to-day, but the cases were hardly any of them of a nature calculated to interest the public, the vast majority being claims for beer scores. rril- lei 0 nf tho lUb 10 Adjourned causes 5 Be-isjued 1 New 266 Judgment Summonses 5 Total 277 Struck off 64 Total 213 Alsopp v. Jeffries, This is for pa/e ale, ...
... CAMP MEETINGS IN PON fYPOOL. At the last anniversary of the TJndenominational Mission, Pontymoil, Alderman R. Cory, the presi- dent, in the course of an earnest and encouraging address, threw out the suggestion that, before the summer was over, a vigorous revival should be held in Pontypool; and he recommended more par- ticularly that it should take the form of a series of open-air or camp ...
... FORBIGlf INTBLLIGENOE, By the arrival of the Etirapa. at Queenstown on Sun- I- day we have intelligence from New Yo* £ to tne i ...