... ALLEGED CRUELTY BY A MOTHER. At Chester Quarter Session, on Monday. Con- stance Helen Phelan. described as a married woman of independent means. living at Sunnvside. Queen's Park. Chester, was charged with ill-treating her son, Ernest Odiot Phelan. aged 18 months, in such a manner as to cause him unnecessary suffering and injury to health. For the prosecution it was stated that Oil February 23 ...

... NOTES FROM NEWTOWN. III tit; Column will uyqicar cumtiicntx 0)/ Local, Political, ami Social Question*, ami any com- Office of Ihin J'ajicr, trill receirr attention. The Liberals in rhe Boroughs are still having a quarrel! amongst themselves,, as to the selection of a candidate to do battle for them at the next Election. Meetings are held every week and no result arrived at. The chief feature ...

... If there is one thing above another of which England is proud, and justly proud, it is her Navy and no wonder therefore that the terrible tragedy which occurred the other day, not amid a winter storm or the roar of the enemy's guns, but on a calm summer evening, should have aroused to the fullest depths the national sympathy. The country has earnestly echoed the suitable language in which,* ...

... SOCIETY NOTES AND PERSONAL PALLS. FROM THE SKKTCH. Much lias been written of ladies' pockets. They have often been abused for being placed in such positions that they offer the strongest temptation to a purloiner. On the other hand, what married man has not been puzzled to obey his wife's behests when she has asked him to get something or other from the pocket of her dress? Even tiie actual ...

... REDUCTION OF THE LIBERAL MAJORITY. Polling for the election of a member of Parlia- ment for Pontefract in the room of Mr. H. J. Reckitt (Gladstonian), unseated on petition, opened at eight o'clock on Monday morning. The candi- dates were Mr. Elliott Lees (Conservative), late M. P. for Oldham, and Mr. T. Williams Nussey (Gladstonian). There were six polling stations, three in Pontefract, two at ...

... EPITOME OF WELSH NEWS. A CIVIL LIST PENSION of £200 a year has been awarded by Mr. Gladstone to Mr. J. Gwenogfryn Evans, in recognition of his services to Welsh literature. SUDDEN DEATH.— On Momby n painful se nsation was created in the Vale of Llangollen by the an- nouncement of the death of Mr. Ilenrv O. ThomasJ Medical-hall, Llangollen, who was in his 35th year. He had just returned home ...

... (NOW FIRST PUBLISHED:) A TEBRIBLEIXPERIESCE. BY J. HAnOLD HOLT, AUTHOI OF A SCAPI: ...

... OSWESTRY. COUXTY SESSIOXS. -Thursday, 3Ir. K Wood presiding. John Stanton, collier from South Staffordshire, Avas charged with assaulting Ann Parry, a married woman, near Selattvn, on the previous Sunday, and Was fined £1 and 7s. costs or a month's imprisonment in default.—Alfred Kvnaston, dealer, of OsAvestry, Avas charged with interfering with the comfort of passengers on the Cambrian ...

... JJ-WI.S.- On Fridiiy evening, 23rd ult.. a match tV., played 011 the Welshpool green netween a side and members of the home OUI). which possesses a capital green. Prior to tlu> plav tin* visitors were hospitably entertained to luncheon at the Royal Oak Hotel, during the afternoon and evening refreshments z t I o generously supplied. The teams were divided into three sections of two players, ...

... MEETING AT NEAVTONVN. A meeting of what is known as the Liberal Three Hundred was held at Newtown, on Friday evening the 23rd ult., to take into consideration the steps to be adopted with reference to a candidate for the Boroughs at the next election, and also the advisa- bility of forming separate associations for the Boroughs and County. There was a 'a -go attend- j ance. R. Lloyd presided, ...

... TO OUR READERS. In presenting to the inhabitants of Mid- Wales the first issue of the COUNTY TDTES, we confidently ask for their cordial, and at the same time. practical sup- port. On all hands we have received many marks of approval at the course we have adopted. In Welshpool, loyal as it always has been to Constitutional principles, we have been extremely gratified at the numer- ous ...

... GREAT NAVAL DISASTER. SINKING OF A FLAGSHIP. LOSS OF 400 L I V E S. The greatest possible excitement was produced in London and the provinces on Friday, 23rd ult., when the terrible news became known that H.M.S. ictoria. the English Flagship in the Mediterranean, had foundered.and 434 officers and men had lost their lives. Not since the Captain went down in 1870 has there been such a loss of ...