... PIGEON SHOOTING.—The tie return match for RZ a side, between Mr T. E. Issardand Mr Thereby, was shot off on the racecourse on Wednesday week, and won by-the latter gentleman. MARKET (Tuesday).—Geese, 4s. to 7s. each; ducks, 4s. to 5s. per couple fowls, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per couple turkeys, 3s. 6d. to 9s. each eggs, 10 to 12 for a shilling butter, 14d. to lGd._per lb. THE MONTGOMERYSHIRE ...

... CORN, A-r. LIVERPOOL CORN.—TUESDAY. Large attendance. Good consumptive business in Wheat, at fully SIXPENCE PER CiiNlAL OVER la,t Friday's rates for all descriptions. Flour Is. dearer, but demand only moderate. Indian Corn Is. denrer and in good request, with not much offering. Round Yellow, 30s. Other articles steady. LONDON, MONDAY.—There were heavy supplies of forriofh Wheat, Flour, and ...

... THE FAIR.—The annual sheep fair was held hero last the 21st. There was a large number of sheep, which sold at improved prices; especially wethers were in great demand, realizing from two to three shillings per head higher than last year's prices. There being so many buyers from all parts at the fair there were scarcely any sheep left unsold. The show of horses and cattle was rather scanty, but ...

... (From the Mark Lane Express.) The fickle season, of which so mauy make complaints, haff again let go the frost, and brought us into the region of fog and damp. The newly-planted wheat, being mostly small, will pass the change unharmed; and if the south winds blow, we may yet see much seed vegetate before Chrismas. But the buoyancy brought by the frost has gone along with it, and again the flow ...

... At a late hour on Saturday night a disturbance of serious character occurred at Price's beerhoxwerbiabop, Auckland, in the course of which Police-eons table Walkington was shot in the right breast by a ...

... Foreign. ? The resolution lately passed by the American House of Representatives, proposing a constitutional amendment with reference to the franchise, has been carried in the Senate by forty to sixteen votes. The resolution provides that neither race, colour, nativity, property, education, nor creed shall in any respect form a disqualification in the exercise of the suffrage. Upon his ...

... DEE FISHERY.—At a meeting held a few days ago at the Owen Glyndwr, the Hon. C. H. Wynn in the chair, it was resolved that a new association be formed to improve the fishing in the Dee. Mr Wynn is to be patron of the association, and a committee has been formed, with Mr W. B. C. Jones as secretary, and Mr J. Jones, London House, treasurer. ...

... The name of the Dean of Canterbury appears in the list of vice-presidents of the newly-organized Protestant Dis- senters' school at Mill Hill. The choir of Exeter Cathedral is to be restored by Mr Gilbert Scott, at a cost of upwards of £12 0:)0, towards which the chapter subscribes 23,000, the Bishop of Exeter 21,003, and the Dean 21,000. It appears, from a letter in the Moscow Gazette, that ...

... LIVERPOOL PROVISION, FRIDAY.—With a steady demand for beef, the sales for the week are over 1,100 tierces, prices re- maining about the same. Pork has further advanced Is. to 2s. per barrel, and the stock in importers' hands is greatly reduced. For bacon there is an excellent inquiry, with an advance of 6d. to Is. per cwt. Hams and shoulders sell slowly, but cannot be quoted lower. With a ...

... MODERN INVENTIOH.—That great invention the Chrono- Qtaph which times all the principal events of the day mil has revolutionized and superseded the clumsy old- fashioned Stop-watch, seems likely to be eclipsed in fame by that still greater and more useful invention the Keyless Watch. The fact of no key being required ren- ders these Watches indispensable to the traveler, the nervous, and ...

... -At the annual meeting of the Welsh Presbyterians held in South wait on W ednesday night, one of the singers an- nounced tfeat he pToposed to substitute another song TCT The Cambrian Pimae which was to have been sung, fearing that it miafht under existing circumstances efccit an unf&wmrable feeing for the Prince of Wales. Mr Watkim Williams, M.P. for Denbigh, chairman crfthe meeting, said ...

... THE LATE REV. JOHN HUGHES, GWYDDELWERN. (From a Correspondent). It is with much regret that we have to announce the decease of the oldest, and one of the most zealous, hard- working ministers of the Calvinistic Methodists in North Wales--the Rev. John Hughes, of Gwyddelwem, Edeirnion, and for many years previoualr of., Llangollen, which event took place at Rhyl, on Sunday. The de- ceased ...