... A new institute has been founded—nominally at least— under the title of the Literary Institute of the British Empire. Our readers may remember that a few weeks since a meeting of persons engaged in literature and journalism was called at the Freemasons' Tavern, to con- sider their position, in the country—and to devise some means for improving the same. After much discussion, a committee was ...

... REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC. HOUSES, &c. The report of the select committee of the House of Com- mons appointed to examine into the system under which public-houses, hotels, beer-shops, dancing-saloons, coffee- houses, theatres, temperance hotels, and places of public entertainment are sanctioned and regulated, has been laid before the House. The various subjects of inquiry re- ferred to ...

... THE TIGER. A letter from Odessa of June 16th states:— A few days ago the English steamer Vesuvius ran into these roads, and brought the wife of Captain Giffard, to whom General Osten-Sacken gave the permission, with a quarantine guardian, to visit the grave of her husband, who commanded the ill-fated steamer Tiger. She remained twenty-four hours collecting par- ticulars of her husband's ...

... BOILER EXPLOSION AT ROCHDALE. A frightful accident of this character, involving a fearful loss of life and a large destruction of property, took place at an early hour on Saturday morning, at Bridge-fold-mill, Rochdale. The buildings destroyed by the explosion be- longed to Mr. John Lord, solicitor, and were situated on the banks of the Roach. They consisted of a two-storied house occupied by ...

... GREAT PUBLIC FRAUD.-SHAMEFUL NEGLI GENCE. SOME good-natured persons imagine that the days when the public Exchequer was regarded as a great milch cow, at whose inexhaustible teats everybody who could get near, was to have a pull, and bless his stars that he had a country upon which to fatten have long passed away that the abuses which flou rished so luxuriantly under the Georges, have disap- ...

... CARDIFF. EXCURSION.—An excursion to the Flat Holms in the Taliesin steamer, took place on Monday last, when up- wards of 160 persons availed themselves of the trip, in the above favourite steamer. At the Police Court held on Monday last, Thomas Lod- wick, farmer, was committed for one month's imprison- ment and hard labour, for a violent assault on his wife, on Saturday last. BOARD OF ...

... CARDIFF. At a Court held by the Rev. Chancellor Williams, at Llandaff Cathcdfal, on Thursday, the 18th instant, the Rev. William Davies, incumbent of Llanwonno, was ap- pointed a surrogate for the diocese of Llandaff. TONDU IRON WORKS.—The proprietors of these works have recently erected a now rolling mill, which acts re- markably well, and will give employment to an increased number of hands. ...

... LORD CAMPBELL AND THE DOCTORS.—The Lord Chief Justice of England, when playfully (I presume) alluding, in the celebrated Bainbrigge case, tried at the Stafford Assizes, to the evidence of the three physicians who had recorded their opinion in favour of the insanity of the testator, observed, after they had retired from the witness box, The medical men who have just been ex- amined, need not be ...

... THE DRAINAGE QUESTION. THE vast importance of efficient sewerage is every year being more generally recognized. In Newport, those upon whom the management of such matters devolves, are all agreed upon this point. The question is not whether Newport should be drained; it is not now whether it should have a thoroughly complete sewerage but it is whether so great a work shall be carried out with ...

... EFFECTS OF THE FABIAN POLICY TOWARDS THE DISTURBER OF EUROPE. THE New Quarterly Review for this month has a caustic article on the vacillating conduct, and lack of manly energy, which, it alleges, characterize the po- licy of statesmen, and cast a mirage over the fame of warriors, in connection with eastern affairs. We select some passages from the production, which, upon the whole, is not ...

... LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH. The young Marquis of Bute, with his mother, the Mar- chioness, and the visitors at present at Cardiff Castle, walked in procession from St. Mary's School-room, on Wednesday week, to the neighbourhood of Newtown, a new and densely-populated locality, where a new church is to be erected for the use of the Welsh portion of the commu- nity. At two ...

... ODDFELLOWSHIP. Ord 6 n?embers of the Loyal Trefdith Castle Lodge of tliis hotfO^ anniversary social meeting at the Crown (w -Newport, in this town, on Tuesday last, on which the S °n upwards of 120 of the brethren assembled round fo * ...