... ^heat, Essex and Kent (white), new 59 ^ea5' ^ssex and Kent (red) new. 52 ™ cea., Norfolk, Lincoln, and Yorkshire 53 87 39 Beans 45 42 Oats, English 28 Flour, households, 43s. to47s. sack of 280ft. UO^LRHAMPION, AN'E TINE: SD-iy.-There was a good r,tteul.ince, but little li-position for business. Wheat sold at last week s rates. Beans, barley, oats, and peas maintain their value. WORCESTER, ...

... We have been requested to publish a considerable por- tion of Dr Wilberforce's farewell charge as Bishop of Oxford but regret to find that a pressure of local intelli- gence prevents our complying with the request as we should like to do. We can only find room for the follow- ing extracts To a certain extent this rule of liberality as to thought must apply also to external observances. As to ...

... The following appears amongst the ecclesiastical pre- ferments and appointments:—Rev. Henry Jones, M.A., chaplain of Tremadoc. Patron, MrD. Williams, M.P. Sir John Acton is gazetted a peer, under the title of Baron Acton, of Aldenham. The very extensive distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish vi hisky, by Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., who ...

... THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH'S APPOINTMENTS. The following appears in the Oswestry Adiertizer.- SIR, —May I beg the favour of your inserting the enclosed letter, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph of the 24th ult., in your next issue of the Advertizer ? The ecclesias- tical appointments of the Bishop have been so often before the public-and in some cases commented on so very unfavourably—that ...

... EARLY FISHING.—News from Bala lake, Merionethshire, has been forwarded to us. Believing that those who know the famous bit of fishing water will be interested by an account of its early doings in the trout way, Mr Owen—the Royal Lion, and good caterer for man on fishing bent-says that already there has been a nice basket of trout taken in the lake; the finest Was lilbs. This mild weather is an ...

... Local and District News. FREEMASOXRY IX NORTH WALES AND SALOP.—The Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, will hold his Grand Lodge at Ironbridge, on Friday, the 5th of February, on which occasion the Brethren of the Province will doubtless gather largely INSURANCE COMPANY.-We understand that Mr Dillon has resigned his office of Secretary of this com- pany, and ...

... THE LADIES' CLUB.—Mrs Lewis, the Rectory, has in- timated her intention of presenting the Ladies'Club with a handsome new banner. PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY, before Lewis Williams, Esq.- Owing to there only being one magistrate present, the sole case, one of assault, in which Rowland Williams was complainant, and Abel Ellis, defendant, was ad- journed. WHIT-SUNDAY AT THE PARISH CHURCH.-On Whit- ...

... Mr E. Richards (Cardiganshire) rose to call attention to the question of Fiiendly Societies, and to move That this House is of opinion that the Government should introduce a measure to, remedy the present insufficient state of the law in relation to Friendly Societies. In 1854 a committee was appointed to in- quire into the question, and upon their report the Act 18 and. 19 Victoria, c. 67, ...

... ABERYSTWYTH. SHOOTING MATCH.—On Thursday afternoon a shcoting match took place between a number of gentlemen staying in the town and neighbourhood. Penybont meadows was the place fixed upon, and a large number of persons as- setabW to witness the sport. The shooting was very good and out of the number of birds which were let out of the trap very few escaped. The company afterwards dined ...

... Radley's Hotel, Southampton, Feb. 24th. SIR,—Finding here on my landing an address by Mor Meirion, the President of the Cambrian League (whom we well know in America as the agent of Grant and the present Government), holding forth many advantages to Welsh emigrants, I beg you to make it known through your columns that no Welshman can hold land in America unless he previously forswears ...

... SIR,-Several s rticles and leaders have appeared in your columns which so entirely misrepresent the position and views of the Welsh Education Alliance, that I fear you have been grossly misinformed. All ministers of religion, mayors of towns, and other persons interested in education in Wales, were invited both by public advertisement and by circular to attend the Aber- ystwyth Conference. ...

... PLANTING HEDGES. It is generally admitted that fields which are surrounded by hedges are more fertile than those which are unenclosed; but this is not universally true without limitations. In dry situations, and on light sandy soils, they are undoubtedly of great benefit from their effects in preventing the escape of moisture, and therefore, in such places their value will, in some measure, in ...