... BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —A meeting of the general and local committee was held this (Prid-iy) morning, in the Grand Jury-room at the Town Hall, the Mayor in the chair, when it was resolved to invite the in- habitants of Cardiff to co-operate with the sub-committee in decorating the. town on the society's visit, so as to give it a fitting reception. A sum of jB50 was ...

... VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM.—On Saturday afternoon a violent thunderstorm passed from the west over liazely- heath, near Bramsbiii. At the same time a carter in the employment of Mr. John South, with four horses, was leav- ing a field in which they had be..o ploughing, when a flash of lightning struck the poor fellow and all the horses to the ground. Two of the horses immediately got up and another ...

... (Before J. JENKINS, Esq., J. JANES, Esq., and the Rev. WILLIAM POWELL.) Mary Ann Skinner, Caerleon, was charged by P. C. Ingram, M. C. No. 21, with sleeping in a privy at Caer- leon. Fourteen days' hard labour. Two convictions for the same offence. BEGGING.—George Maddox, Knutsford, Cheshire, was charged by P. C. Ingram with vagrancy, by begging, at Caerleon. Discharged with a caution. ...

... A correspondent of one of the Indian newspapers writes: Captain Rothney, and his gallant regiment, the 4th Sikhs, were the means of saving Loodiana from utter destruction. They were on their way down to Delhi last Juno, when they came to Jullunder. The brigadier hurried them off to Filor, lest their presence should snake the Sepahi regiments uneasy. The Sikhs went on their way, and the ...

... In a conversation which Sir H, Sevmour had s f=w ?a' rth °ne of his c°lleagues, ha said At such a critical moment as the present there oneh' to be a truce to the jealousies and bickerings of Austria and Prussia, and it should be their aim to make of Germany a power which could, in case of nfed, enforce R1?J-eS,eCt A0t' |be neighbouring governments, French and g aS d,:s?ensi°n prevails ...

... THE Timet is doing good service by calling attention to the evils occasioned by the Scotch bankruptcy courts being open to the resort of English debtors. There is no complaint against the law itself, which appears to be far superior to that of this country, and in a great degree worthy of imitation but for bankrupts to have the power of compelling poor people who may have suffered by them ...

... ateUentss anS MYSTERIOUS DEATB; OF A SOLICITOR. On Tuesday an adjourned inquest was concluded at the Mar- quis Cornwallis, Old Ford-road, Bromley, Middlesex, on the boay of Mr. John Elliott, aged 57, late a solicitor residing at Silvia Cottage, Old Ford-road., Mr. James Stephenson, builder, deceased s brother-in-law, said that the deceased was a gentleman of considerable ability. He could ...

... To the Editor of the Usk Observer. SIR,—Will you allow your paper to be the medium of communication to the inhabitants of the town Jl the.?«>s! Md. too the hetfiof of » .e-'lj Wn, but to other, narts of f fp ,f i P0X f makm £ rapid strides through all dSkfl th^'l l 7- • As,the Public vaccinator for this k am justified in. directing the attention of P- a, others to the necessity of warding ...

... The Paris Conferences, it is said, meet on the 1st of May. The colony of Victoria has made, by its organ, the Legislative Assembly, the noble donation of £25,000 to the Indian Relief Fund. Gas is all the rage at present in Australia. Companies are being formed iu Geelong and in the towns on the diggings for the supply of this illuminator. T'e Morning Post Paris Correspondent says I have ...

... DEATH OF THE EARL OF MORTON-The Earl of Morton died on Wednesday, at the family residence in Brook-street, after a short illness. The deceased, George Sholto Douglas, Earl of Morton, Lord Dalkeith and Aberdour in the peerage of Scotland, of which peerage he was a representative peer in parliament, was eldest son of the Hon. John Douglas, by Lady Frances Lascellas, eldest daughter of Edward, ...

... THE TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.—The Liverpool Customs Bill of Entry contains the following statistics :-Customs duties received in the port of Liverpool on the under- mentioned goods iu the month ended March 31, 1858,— Coffee, £ 4,586 18-. 4d.; corn, meal, and a )ur, £ 13,237. 7?. 9d. molasses, £ 7,384. 12s. IOJ.; sugar, £79,8t7. 17s. Id.; spirits, £38,718. 12s. lid.; tea, £ 43,034. 5s. 6d.; tobacco, ...

... THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following is the summary of the Bombay Times, coming down to March 9:- The interest of our present intelligence is con- fined mainly to the position of matters at Lucknow, which is either under assault or in our possession, at the time we write this. General Outram, who has held the post of honour and of danger so long at Alumbagh, and triumphantly repelled, with his small ...