... CORPORATION AND BOARD OF HEALTH.—The ad- journed meeting of the Board of Health and Town Council was held at the Town-hall on Friday, the Mayor in the chair. The adjourned meeting of the Council was held for the purpose of meeting Mr. Williams and Mr. Freeling, surveyor and architect of the Post-office department, to discuss and decide on the plans for the new Post-office proposed to be ...

... ■War* TSAOKS.—We hear constantly of absconding contraetors. It is not a matter of much sur- n it is Teraembersd that it is a regular busi- hesi- fellows to make ireuwes. OiT.—A person was boasting that he was axaily in Ireland.— .LeII, aaid a by. v» sfcen some of the same family so high wid not to^h the ground?1 deal of the brute in man. For ATsmpTg^ c oiatic, often puppy-ish, sometimes ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Re. presentation of the People Bill was resumed by Lord CRANB JRNE, who said it was a part of the whole plan of the Government to reprasent the Conservative party as afraid of the working classes, and unwilling to trust them. It was the great glory of the House of Com- mons that its language had been always free and ...

... NEWPORT ATHENAEUM AND ME- CHANICS' INSTITUTE. The annual meeting of the members of this institu- tion was held in the reading room of the Athenseum on Friday evening. The Rev. S. Fox, one of the Vice- Presidents occupied the chair and there was a large attendance. Mr. Daw read, with the exception of the lust para- graph, which was read by the Chairman, the accom- panying report, and the ...

... GREAT FIRE NEAR BIRMINGHAM. A fire, fortunately unattended with loss of life, though disastrous in its results, broke out at noon on Tuesday, at Finshall House, the residence of Mr. William Palmer, a solicitor, practising in Birmingham. Finshall House is, or rather was, a large square stone mansion, with an Ionic porch fronting the north, and a verandah running round the rest of the building. ...

... CHRISTMAS WEEK. EBENEZER (WELSH WESLEYAN) CHAPEL.—-Ser- vise was held on the 25th, at six a.m., when the Rev. J. Herbert preached from Isaiah 9, verses 6 and 7, a very appropriate discourse. At ten o'clock the Sunday School children were examined in several parts of Scripture, which ordeal they y ?.ssed through to the satisfaction of all present. M two o'clock Bryn Seion Sunday Scholars were ...

... A terrible series of murders has just been com- mitted by a telegraph clerk named Zohrer, employed at Bodenbach. This man had either received notice of a large fortune having been left him, or imagined that such was the case, for it is not yet ascertained which is the fact; at all events he obtained leave of absence, and removed with his family to Vienna. The family consisted of Madame Therese ...

... CHILD MURDER NEAR HARTLEPOOL. An adjourned inquest was held on Wednesday, at Trimdon Grange, a colliery village on the Hartlepool and Ferryhill Railway, before Mr. Maynard, coroner, on the body of a newly-born infant, which had apparently come to its death by unfair means. Margaret Coxon, a married woman, about forty years of age, residing at Trimdon Colliery, with three sons, but whose ...

... THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT CWMBRAN. ADJOWTWED INQUEST.-THIRD DAY. The adjourned irquest, totichina the death of Robert M'Gep, engine driver, who was killed at the recent rail- way accident, at Cwmbran, was resumed on Iupsdav morning at the Forge Hammer Inn, before Mr. W. H. Brewer, coroner. The jury assembled at eleven o clock, ( but it was nearly twelve before the proceedings com- ...

... GARDEN OPERATIONS. PLANT- D LPAKTMEXT. Conservatory-, — Sh9 3-hoald b used sparingly except on brignt during do.iL1 unsettled woather plants require all the that cona ...

... THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE CARDIFF GOAL.- At the Glamorganshire quarter session, held at Swansea, on Tuesday, Superintenpant Wrenn, for- merly of Bristol, but for some years past super- intejidant of the Merthyr constabulary, was unanimously elected governor of Cardiff goal, in the place of Mr. Wood, resigned. There were 33 candi- dates. Mr. Wrenn was supported by Lord Tredegar and the High ...

... General N change was made on Thursday in the rate of discount. The funeral of the Earl of Cardigan took place on Monday, at D ene Chnrch, Northamptonshire. It 11 walking funeral, and a great number of the late Carl's tenantry and neighbours were present. On Tuesday morning, shortly after midnight, a re- spectably dressed young man leaped into the Thames from Loi don Bridge. Seve-al perrons ...