... LOCAL POLITICAL ORGANIZA- TION. A NEW DEVKLOPMENT. CARDIFF WtiLSH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. A circular, which is being distributed; among Cardiff Welshmen this week, announces the for- mation of a new political organization, which will not be without its influence on the future develop- ment of political life in the metropolis of Wales. The new society, which goes under the name of The Cardiff ...

... Oa the motioa for going into supply, Captain VERNEY took the opportunity to ask from the Government an assurance that pending the disposal of the Tithes Bill troops should not be employed at tithe distraints in Wales. Much ill-feeling resulted from the use of troops in the principality, and he hoped that no requisition would be granted without the most careful inquirry Mr W. REDMOND drew ...

... SOUTH WALES NOTES. [BY COSMOS.] TREES FOR DINNER. THE latest discovery will be disastrous to the price of beef and mutton, for no leas an eminent authority than Victor Meyer, of Heidelberg, has announced that we may reasonably hope that chemistry will teach us to make the fibre of wood a source of human fond. The ceilulin is to be changed into starch, which, together with theenfored increase ...

... The coroner's inquiry into the Llanereh disaster will be resumed to-day (Tuesday) at the Town- hall, Pontypool. Several of the workmen, including those who worked in the mine the night before the explosion, have been informed that their attendance will be necessary. Mr Joseph Morgan, the manager, who played such a heroic part in rescuing the injured, and whose praise is on every tongue, is ...

... The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the wool- sack at a quarter-past four o'clock. UNIFORMITY OF SENTENCES. Lord HERSCHKLL called attention to the differences of opinion which prevailed as to the principles which should regulate the severity of the sentences to be inflicted upon criminal offenders, and to the consequent inequality of the sentences passed. He asked the Government whether they ...

... CARDIFF GAS WORKS. THE PROPOSED PURCHASE. VIEWS OF A COMMERCIAL MAN. This idea of buyiug the gas woiks mustn't ba entertained for a moment. The speaker was one of the leading busiueq men or C'rd ff; and It addressed his remark to a South Wales Daily News, reporter. Why askeu tbe prt!8man. It tsn r, good enough. Why, these men on the Town Cuuuoil talk of half-a-million as if it were a ...

... PONTARDULAIS. VKSTRY.—At a vestry meeting held at the Board Schools on Thursday evening, Mr J. Roberts, of the Board Schools, was nominated in the place of Mr Thomas Williams, Castelldu, the retiring overseer. The following were also named for selection by the magistrates :—Messrs Samuel Williams, J. Gape, William Harris, and D. Thomas, Pentie. ...

... THE PARNELL COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. So far as the Report of the PARNELL Com- missioners has reached us, the forebodings of the timid and the hopes of the Unionists have been entirely crushed. Mr PARNELL, aio all events, comes out clean handed. Whatever con- spiracy there may have been was only the legitimate conspiracy of a trades union. It was conspiracy to protect the poor, the weak, the down ...

... HAnHY ANDTCADOXTON LOCAL A special meeting of the above Board was held af Cadoxton on Monday atternoon, when there were present Mr Yi. D, Jotit,3 (in the chair), Rev Cauou Allen, and Messrs J. Robinson, J. Jones, P. J. O'Donnel', d- C. Meggitt, C. Morgan. W. Thomas, J. C. Pardoe (surveyor), J. Hughes (clerk), a°d C. (collector). A letter was read from the secretary or tte Barry Dock and ...

... PONTYPRIDD. FATAL ACCIDENT AT CILFTNYDD.—On Taes- day, at the B«ssetts Arm. Cdfynydd, Mr E. B. Reece, Cardiff, held an inquiry with reference to tf,e deatb of a lad named William Osborne, aged 13, who was killed at the Albion Colliery by being ttenck by a rope on Ccrwima* nigbt. Deceased was minding the rope on the pit bank, and by some means had his arm drawn into the machinery connected with ...

... DEATH O DR. DOLLINGER. As was announced in our later editions on Saturday, Dr Dodinger, the illustrious historian and divine, and the leader of the Oid Catholic movement, died at Munich, on Friday evening at nine o'clock, from the results of an attack of influenzt. The deceased scholar, who had nearly completed his 9ht year, having been born on February 28h, 1799, expired quietly. Dr Dollinger ...

... CARDIFF BLUE RIBBON MOVEMENT. A CHESHIRE CORONER CENSURED. The weekly meeting of the Cardiff Temperance Society was held at the Stuart-hall, Cardiff, on Saturday nibt. Mr A. A. Bryan presided, and in his prefatory remarks referred in strong terms to the action of Mr H. Churton, the Nantwicb coroner, who, he said, had gone out of his way to attack the temperance cause, because he (Mr Churton) ...